Tag: I picked up Saffy’s Angel by total chance and loved it so hard my brain melted (but it luckily reconstituted afterwards)

Note: I received a copy of Binny in Secret from the publisher for review consideration. Oh frabjous day when Hilary McKay has a new book! Hilary McKay — in case you have not heard me sing her praises in the past — is a British children’s writer who should be much more famous than she is. She writes the kind of old-fashioned children-doing-adventures books you loved as a kid, like Elizabeth Enright’s Melendy Quartet or, more recently, Jeanne Birdsall’s Penderwicks books; but with more carefully-drawn family dynamics than the former and more humor than the latter. Binny in Secret, the follow-up to Binny for Short, sees…