Everything on a Waffle

Based on my previous experience with a Polly Horvath novel, I'd anticipated that this book would be a funny book. Not so, at least not in an uproariously hilarious way. Primrose finds that her parents have been lost at sea, but she never doubts they will return. In the meantime, she is sent to live with a bachelor uncle who wants to transform her town into an economic boom town. The parents do in fact return, against all odds, but most of the other loose ends just seem to drift off. Newbery Honor.

I loved this book. Loved it. At times, I wondered how everyone could stay so happy while such horrible things were happening to them but that is part of the charm. This is an old fashioned “tale” in which the child narrator is smarter than the adults around her, and the setting is a character itself. I have loved Polly Horvath's work since The Canning Season (still one of my all time faves). So I glad I picked this one up.