{"id":40653,"date":"2023-01-24T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40653"},"modified":"2023-01-24T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:06:09","slug":"review-of-garlic-the-vampire-by-bree-paulsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40653","title":{"rendered":"Review of Garlic &#038; the Vampire, by Bree Paulsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garlic_and_the_vampire_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garlic_and_the_vampire_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garlic_and_the_vampire_large.jpg 351w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garlic_and_the_vampire_large-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><em>Garlic and the Vampire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Bree Paulsen<\/p>\n<p>Quill Tree Books (HarperCollins), 2021.  154 pages.<br \/>\nReview written January 9, 2022, from a library book<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p><em>Garlic and the Vampire<\/em> is a fun graphic novel suitable for early elementary school kids.  The book opens with bulb of garlic with a body oversleeping and being teased by her friend Carrot when she\u2019s late.  They\u2019re part of a whole group of sentient vegetables made by kindly Witch Agnes.  Garlic and her friends help Agnes tend her garden and sell the produce in the village market.  They happily interact with the people in the village.<\/p>\n<p>Garlic has some anxiety about doing her job well.  Witch Agnes tries to reassure her and encourage her that she\u2019s doing fine.<\/p>\n<p>But then somebody moves into the castle overlooking the valley.  Agnes\u2019s magic mirror shows them that a vampire has returned.  The vegetables go into a panic.  What about the people in the village?<\/p>\n<p>But everybody knows that vampires are afraid of garlic, so they decide that Garlic should confront the vampire.<\/p>\n<p>Witch Agnes gives her tools to help her, but it takes all Garlic\u2019s courage to do the job.<\/p>\n<p>And things turn out like no one expects \u2013 in a fun and child-friendly way.<\/p>\n<p>A delightful, quirky, and very sweet story about a little bulb of garlic being brave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harperalley.com\/\">harperalley.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0062995081\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/garlic_and_the_vampire.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/garlic_and_the_vampire.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen Quill Tree Books (HarperCollins), 2021. 154 pages. Review written January 9, 2022, from a library book Starred Review Garlic and the Vampire is a fun graphic novel suitable for early elementary school kids. The book opens with bulb of garlic with a body oversleeping and being teased by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,37,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-fantasy","category-graphic-novel","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42131,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/revisions\/42131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}