Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. It will be released May 18, 2021 by Tundra Books. Preorder it for your libraries.
You are going to love Kate!
One day Grandma comes to visit. She wants Kate to come and spend the summer with her and Grandpa. After a bit, Mom agrees. Grandma and Kate travel on a train and then by boat to get to Kate's grandparents home on the lake where they run a local store.
Sleeping in what used to be her mother's bed, Kate is a bit homesick. However, she's soon busy helping her grandfather deliver groceries. Most of the people they deliver to are friendly, except for grumpy Walter.
In the evenings Grandma teaches her how to drive the boat and Parbuckle, the dog, becomes a good friend.
One morning Grandpa collapses with a heart attack. After he is rushed to the hospital, Kate sits on the dock with the groceries and decides to deliver them herself. Her only worry is that troublesome Walter.
I enjoyed this book a couple of times before reading the information about the author and illustrator on the jacket flaps. Knowing that Harebridge wrote this for his sister who has down syndrome, and that the protagonist, Kate, is based on her, brought significant meaning to aspects of the story. I appreciated it even more.
Josée Bisaillon's artwork is swoonworthy. It wowed me right from the start. Her illustrations, "a mixture of collage, drawings and digital montage, take us into a world so richly detailed and multidimensional that you'd hardly think it all came out of only one person's imagination."
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