{"id":42152,"date":"2024-05-17T22:28:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42152"},"modified":"2024-05-17T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T02:28:24","slug":"review-of-paradise-sands-by-levi-pinfold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42152","title":{"rendered":"Review of Paradise Sands, by Levi Pinfold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/paradise_sands_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/paradise_sands_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43782\" \/><\/a><em>Paradise Sands<\/p>\n<p>A Story of Enchantment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Levi Pinfold<\/p>\n<p>Candlewick Studio, 2022.  40 pages.<br \/>\nReview written January 31, 2023, from a library book<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>This picture book beautifully continues in the tradition of Chris Van Allsburg, eerie and beautiful and full of magic.  It&#8217;s not a book for preschoolers, but elementary school students will love the creepy innuendos.<\/p>\n<p>A girl and her three brothers drive off into a desert, singing a nonsense rhyme their mother used to sing for them.  Or is it nonsense?  The girl notices that they&#8217;re doing the things mentioned in the song.<\/p>\n<p>When they find a grand palace, she doesn&#8217;t &#8220;sip from the chalice&#8221; like her brothers do.  <\/p>\n<p>And it ends up being up to her to save her brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The art in this book is magnificent and eerie and is perfect for this unsettling adventure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.candlewickstudio.com\/\">candlewickstudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1536212822\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/Picture_Books\/paradise_sands.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/paradise_sands.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>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradise Sands A Story of Enchantment by Levi Pinfold Candlewick Studio, 2022. 40 pages. Review written January 31, 2023, from a library book Starred Review This picture book beautifully continues in the tradition of Chris Van Allsburg, eerie and beautiful and full of magic. It&#8217;s not a book for preschoolers, but elementary school students will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42152","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=42152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43783,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42152\/revisions\/43783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}