{"id":280152,"date":"2025-06-07T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/childrens-book-committee-may-2025-pick\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T21:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:41:38","slug":"childrens-book-committee-may-2025-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=280152","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Book Committee \u2013 May 2025 Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Impossible Creatures<\/strong><br \/>Author: Katherine Rundell<br \/>Illustrator: Ashley Mackenzie<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34722 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bankstreet-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/impossible-creatures-thumb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"224\"\/>While rescuing a griffin, Christopher stumbles into a magical archipelago and meets a girl who can fly. Together they must save the world. Line drawings, glossary of magical beasts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Young Reviewer Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Katherine Rundell has crafted a breathtaking story, one which interweaves a unique magical world with carefully rounded characters, and a beautifully paced storyline equally moving and light-hearted at the right moments. What sets this children\u2019s fantasy apart from others is perhaps the concepts and creatures in the stories, the messages delivered, and the ending, which is sure to break your heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2013Sophie, age 12, Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Young people who are interested in reviewing are invited to do so as we welcome the individual perspective of our age appropriate readers. If you are interested in being a reviewer, contact <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?view=cm&amp;fs=1&amp;tf=1&amp;to=youngreviewers@bankstreet.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youngreviewers@bankstreet.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">See our <a href=\"https:\/\/bankstreetcollegeccl.wordpress.com\/category\/pick-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monthly Picks Archive 2012\u20132018<\/a>, and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankstreet.edu\/ccl_category\/young-reviewers\/\">Monthly Picks 2019\u2013present<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '1084992405975271');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impossible CreaturesAuthor: Katherine RundellIllustrator: Ashley Mackenzie While rescuing a griffin, Christopher stumbles into a magical archipelago and meets a girl who can fly. 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