Saturday, November 8, 2008

Masterpiece

Masterpiece by Elise Broach, Kelly Murphy (Illustrator)
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

...Delightful intricacies of beetle life...blend seamlessly with the suspenseful caper as well as the sentimental story of a complicated-but-rewarding friendship that requires a great deal of frantic leg-wiggling on Marvin's part. Murphy's charming pen-and-ink drawings populate the short chapters of this funny, winsome novel.