![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrator’s agent: Jennifer Rofé, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Author’s agent: Holly McGhee, Pippin Properties. Regardless, the premise and pictures make this a deeply touching story-and with its ink-proud, scruffily handsome paterfamilias, it’s right on trend as well. She brings them back to her maple tree and nurses them back to strength. Miss Maple is a little woman who spends her entire summer searching for seeds that have not gotten planted in the spring. This book will sweep you up like a breath of brisk autumn air. Wheeler’s ( Wherever You Go) cutaways to the past are evocative and imaginatively framed, but McGhee’s ( The Case of the Missing Donut) decision to give Dad the only voice in the book-he’s both the storyteller and articulator of his son’s questions (“What do you mean, this one’s your favorite?”)-may leave readers wondering why the boy isn’t speaking for himself. Review: Miss Maple’s Seeds by Eliza Wheeler. But Dad and his “little man” agree that their favorite tattoo is a small heart, right over the man’s real heart, which contains his son’s birth date. A dragon tattoo prompts Dad to recall how his mother would read him a beloved book “over and over.” A desert scene takes Dad back to his military service (“the longest trip I ever took”), when he and a line of grunts trudged across a sun-baked landscape. ![]() A preschooler is fascinated by his father’s elaborate tattoos and the personal history behind them. ![]()
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