![]() ![]() In particular, she wanted to make a book that would be fun for teachers and parents to read aloud with children. Timberlake modeled the gentler “Skunk and Badger” after A.A. ![]() Something of a “True Grit” for middle-grade readers, it won both a Newbery Honor and an Edgar Award for best juvenile mystery. Her previous book was “One Came Home” (2013), a historical novel for 9- to 12-year-olds set in Wisconsin in 1871 during the largest nesting of passenger pigeons ever recorded. How did they become housemates? More importantly, will they stay housemates? Those questions are explored in Amy Timberlake’s “Skunk and Badger,” a sweetly entertaining new novel for 8- to 12-year-olds, as well as older people who might enjoy reading along with them.Ī Hudson native who lives in Chicago, Timberlake is not a prolific writer, so her books are special events. The livelier Skunk bounces and skips, and invites all the neighborhood chickens over for storytime. Somewhere east of “Frog and Toad” and west of “The Odd Couple” live Skunk and Badger, as mismatched a pair of musteloids as you’ll ever find in North Twist.īadger likes to hunker down with his hammers and safety glasses, doing important rock work with his quartzes and tourmaline pegmatites. ![]()
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