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Reviewed by: The Traveler's Gift by Danielle Davison Fiona Hartley-Kroeger Davison, Danielle The Traveler's Gift; illus. by Anne Lambelet. Page Street, 2019 [40p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-62414-765-4 $17.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad 5-8 yrs When Liam's seafaring storytelling father dies, Liam's joy in the magic of words disappears. A colorful stranger named Enzo rekindles Liam's love of stories, and Liam joins him in his travels until Enzo, at the end of his life, bestows a magical gift that helps Liam's own storytelling powers flourish. The love of storytelling is palpable in the text, but there's more style than substance in the airy tale and adventures, and Liam and Enzo's visits to exoticized, friendly brown people smack of white tourism. Lambelet's stylized figures, textured with digital hatching, are pleasantly off-kilter, almost doll-like in their stylized poses. There's drama as the curving, water-borne lines of storytelling wind with abandon through the cozy, orderly harbor town or across stark white space, but the swirls sometimes drown the narrative elements of the art. The themes of grief and recovery through the power of words are potent ones, though, and the book could certainly be used to initiate conversations about storytelling and about loss. Copyright © 2019 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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