Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes is so much fun to read aloud that, for the first time in ten years of reading to her, my daughter jumped in to take over the reading – specifically to give voice to a ten-year-old heroine. When a villain tells Peter Nimble that he’s “just a child,” this young girl proclaims, “There’s no such thing as just a child.” This belief in the intelligence and capability of children propels the book forward and endears the narrator and the […]