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This is such a unique setup! I expected a novel when I pulled this off the shelf, but that is not what I found. Lowry begins with a discovery: the Windeby child unearthed in Germany in 1952. She creates a fictionalized account of the life of that child, shares further history, and tells a different story of the Windeby child. It‘s a fascinating exercise. I can see this being an excellent example for beginning storytellers. And it‘s # 100 for 2023!

Wonderful addition to Lowry‘s impressive repertoire! Intrigued by the discovery of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body in Northern Germany in 1952, Lowry conjurés up an identity and backstory for the young person found there, pristinely preserved by the peat. The body was radiocarbon-dated to between 41 BC and 118 AD. Fascinating!

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I loved Lowry‘s Anastasia Krupnik series and A Summer to Die in my girlhood so was excited to learn she shares my fascination with bog bodies. I enjoyed this. Might work well for a classroom, 5th grade maybe? It is written in such an interesting way, part fiction, part nonfiction. Lowry talks about the history and her writing, explaining how and why she went about telling the story, two versions, of what may have happened to this young person.

A little Monday #bookmail. The Pin is another from the #WomensPrize longlist. And I couldn‘t resist tagged - inspired by the true discovery of the two-thousand-year-old Windeby bog body in northern Germany.

I was very curious about a new release from Lois Lowry! This alternates between the author recalling how she learned about the Windeby body and some of her decision-making process in writing the story and the story itself. I‘m having a hard time deciding if I liked the author‘s interludes or not, but leaning towards not, so a low pick for me.