Bog Myrtle

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Ebook in PDF format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

DRM:
Watermark

Publication Year:
2024

ISBN-13: 9781773218953

<p><strong>“I adore this book as much as I adore empowered spiders, poker-faced narrators, and cooperative bookstores. It’s wry, whip-smart, and freaking gorgeous. Sid Sharp is a maestro of comic timing and subversion.” —Kyo Maclear, author of </strong><em><strong>It Began With a Page</strong></em></p><p><strong>From the acclaimed author of </strong><em><strong>The Wolf Suit</strong></em><strong> comes another weirdly hilarious, masterfully thought-provoking, and lushly painted early reader graphic novel.</strong></p><p>Two sisters, one stubbornly cheerful (Beatrice) and one relentlessly grumpy (Magnolia), live in a drafty old house with a family of helpful spiders. When Beatrice is gifted magic yarn from a giant forest spider obsessed with sustainability named Bog Myrtle, she and the spiders set to work knitting up a perfectly warm sweater.</p><p>But greedy Magnolia sees only the opportunity for profit, and quickly converts the old house into a magic sweater factory. The exhausted spiders are driven to strike, and Bog Myrtle is not pleased . . .</p><p><em>Bog Myrtle</em> is a witty modern folktale that touches on themes of capitalism, environmentalism, labor rights, and being a nice person.</p><p><b>*A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection</b><br></p><ul><li><strong>ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:</strong> Lesson to love the world around us and our fellow creatures and critters</li><li><strong>CREATIVE ELEMENTS: </strong>The book features a lot of knitting and will inspire the reader to pick up their own pair of needles.</li><li><strong>LABOR RIGHTS: </strong>Gives young readers a gentle introduction to politics and striking</li><li><strong>SPOOKY BUT CUTE: </strong>There are lots of spiders present throughout the story but they are charming instead of scary</li><li><strong>UNOFFICIAL TRILOGY:</strong> Follow-up to <em>The Wolf Suit</em>, this book takes place in the same universe and you might recognize some familiar faces in the forest</li><li><strong>FOR FANS OF:</strong> <em>The Wolf Suit </em>and<em> The Skull</em></li><li><strong>LEVELING INFO: </strong>Coming soon</li></ul>