Now, the friendly correspondence of Madeleine in Cambridge and Elliot in Cello has led to the rescue of Cello’s royal family, lost in our World. It all began with interworld correspondence through a parking meter in Cambridge, England, and a broken television in the Kingdom of Cello. If you haven’t yet discovered this star-worthy trilogy, now’s the time - it’s perfect summer reading. Good news! At last, the final book of The Colors of Madeleine series ( A Corner of White The Cracks in the Kingdom) is here. The magic of summer, the wilderness, and northern stillness is right here. The stillness of the northern lake is marked by a few faint ripples the dragonflies are made extraordinary by the delicate tracery of their wings, luminous against a clear sky. While Deines’ illustrations were impressionistic, Flett’s are pellucid, her colours clear, her lines clean and precise. One night, the boys dream of flying with their dragonfly kites right into the sunset. But they like most to tie threads to the shimmering dragonflies, which fly up into the air like living kites.
They give names to stones and sticks, and make pets of a tern, a loon, eaglets, squirrels, rabbits and even ants. Joe and Cody love their summer home in a tent near a lake, and they play with what they find around them. Now, it’s fully reimagined by Cree-Métis illustrator Flett as the second in Highway’s Magical Songs of the North Trilogy. Highway’s bilingual English/Cree story of two boys playing in the summer wilderness of northern Manitoba was first illustrated by Brian Deines in 2002 (HarperCollins). All are gorgeously evident in this atmospheric work which looks forward - hurrah! - to spring.īy Tomson Highway, illustrated by Julie Flett The Fan brothers conjure a shadowy moonlit world with lush blue-greens, and copious leaves and branches. The town gathers to wonder at his huge living sculptures of owl and cat, rabbit and dragon but only to William does the mysterious arborist teach the skills of artful pruning. William is a wistful little orphan until, over several nights, his life is changed by the work of the “night gardener” - a kindly fellow who, tree by tree, works topiary magic on the local foliage.
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