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Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball by Laura Ellen Anderson (view source)
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The annual Barbaric Ball is fast approaching and Amelia is facing the prospect of being the only person her age at it again. Things are different this year, however and the King may finally be returning to public life.
To children a lot of this will be amusing. Disgusting meals, inverted expectations/normality and surreal reality – all of these things will delight children.
There is a reason the late Terry Pratchett and the marvellous Cornelia Funke turn to Lauren Laura Ellen Anderson for their illustrations! She is a fantastic artist and her style for this book could only be described as disgustingly beautiful. Anderson takes the Burton-esq trappings of the world she created and ramps them to eleven deeply enhancing the experience for readers.
The story is hardly original and as a morality tale you just know exactly how it will end. At least that is the case when a 42 year old who's read thousands of books reads it. For a six to ten year old things won't be so cut and dry. The trappings of the tale will mask the simplicity of it for young readers. The moral being conveyed is a great one and it will hit home with kids as relating to their everyday life.