Isabelle Arsenault (Illustrator)
That title, that cover? How can you not be intrigued? This is a strange and melancholy sort of book, but also unique and very memorable. Helene is a lonely little girl who has recently run afoul of the queen bees at her school. The book implies that Helene used to be part of their group, but...
A friendless girl is bullied about her weight by her classmates, and escapes from her misery via Jane Eyre. And then a fox sees her, and she makes a friend.Of course I can relate to a story about a girl who uses books as a substitute for real people, but I was deeply touched by the way the author an...