Review:
"This book is smart, funny, and very odd; it's a love letter to reading and to the life-saving power of imagination."--Marjorie Ingall"Tablet Magazine" (12/11/2014)
"Convincingly set in Pittsburgh in the early 1950s, when scientists were working on a polio vaccine, and attitudes toward people with disabilities were quite different from today's, Rocklin's story is a conscious homage to Charlotte's Web, many a voracious reader's favorite book."--Kathleen Isaacs"Booklist Online" (08/14/2014)
"With keen insight into human (and insect) relations, Rocklin creates believable, three-dimensional characters--Franny's goody-two-shoes older sister, for example, and Franny's old gang of friends, fearful of contagion--that help anchor the off-the-wall-fantastical elements."--Elissa Gershowitz"The Horn Book Magazine" (11/01/2014)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
"Strong characterization will make this story a favorite, and the smart, funny writing will attract readers."--Teri Hennessy, Library Information Specialist, Wilmette (Illinois) Junior High School"Library Media Connection" (03/01/2014)
"With 'Fleabrain Loves Franny, ' Joanne Rocklin has brought into being perhaps the tiniest and most accomplished hero yet: a dashing, erudite, multilingual flea"--Wall Street Journal (08/08/2014)
"A good choice for kids who like their history with a sprinkling of whimsy."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (11/01/2014)
About the Author:
Joanne Rocklin is the author of One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street, which won the California Book Award, and The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook, which won the Golden Kite Award and was named to Florida's Sunshine State Young Readers Award master list. She lives in Oakland, California.
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