Masterpiece by Elise Broach, illustrations by Kelly Murphy 288 pp RL4
MASTERPIECE is now in PAPERBACK!!! This is such a fabulous book, and a great read-out-loud for the 5 and under crowd who are ready for a more complex story that is still gentle and only a little suspenseful... In the great tradition of EL Konigsburg's masterpiece of children's literature, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler , with a little Cricket in Times Square thrown in, comes Elise Broach's fantastic new mystery, Masterpiece , with superb illustrations by the wonderful Kelly Murphy , doing double duty as the illustrator of the text and the artist behind the creations of Marvin, the beetle with a true artistic gift. Masterpiece involves drawings by the great German artist Albrecht Durer, art theft, forgery, the FBI and beetles, not necessarily in that order. Marvin is a beetle living the good life in the walls of the Pompaday aprtment in New York City. He has loving and attentive parents, a large extended family and William Pom