We come to love Odder in Applegate’s terse and unvarnished presentation. It’s an antidote to the story of abuse that Clementine and her lab friends have survived.īut it’s still a life of hardship. Odder is attacked by a shark and returns to the marine center, where the care lavished on her by humans is sensitive and appropriate. The poetry is disarmingly sleek and swims through the pages with apparent effortlessness, pulling us along in helpless rapture. “Always, Clementine” is a tale of two mice who escape from a research lab, Clementine having been rendered scathingly brilliant in an almost “Flowers for Algernon” way, without the regression. Each novel, in its own arresting manner, works a change on classic tropes. Here are three treasures worthy of their illustrious cousins. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH” and “The Rescuers,” clear some space. …” (Roald Dahl and Beatrix Potter - and Aesop before them - have a lot to answer for.) “Mice have really bad luck in books,” admits her friend, a human boy. “Have you ever heard of Stuart Little? Or ‘Ratatouille’?” asks the mouse narrator of the droll and delightful “Always, Clementine,” by Carlie Sorosiak (“I, Cosmo”).
Still, I like the notion that books can have a family feeling, that they can resemble their illustrious forebears enough to cluster on the same shelf for a sense of community. … ” Such a placement can occur only in a private collection, as libraries and bookstores shelve alphabetically, and kids drop books anywhere. A familiar comment on the dust jackets of children’s books of my youth was “This belongs on the shelf with.
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