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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2013
The horticulturally named children of the British Gadsby family -- teenage Flora, little kids Jasmine and Twig, and middle-schooler Bluebell (called Blue) -- live in a world of unrelenting domestic mishap. The Gadsby parents are busy, absent, or neglectful, ` la Hilary McKay's Casson family novels. Pet rats escape. Characters fall off swings, defenestrate themselves, get l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Intermediate Fiction
British middle-schooler Blue Gadsby and her siblings live in a world of unrelenting domestic mishap. Behind the foreground rumpus is...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
