One June day a typhoon arose at sea that blew the rain practically perpendicular to our house. I have hair the color of carrots in an apricot glaze (recipe to follow), skin fair and clear where it isn’t freckled, and eyes like summer storms. Primrose cuts straight to the point in the novel’s opening sentences: “I live in Coal Harbour, British Columbia. But her terrific new novel has made me an instant fan, and it deserves to win her thousands more. Horvath, author of five previous books for children, including The Trolls (published in 1999 and shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award) lives in Metchosin, B.C., and I am mortified to admit that I had never heard of her before now. And what a vibrant, funny, frank, and irrepressible narrator she is. Splice the literary DNA of Pippi Longstocking with Anne Shirley and you pretty much have Primrose Squarp, the 11-year-old narrator of Polly Horvath’s new novel, Everything on a Waffle.
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