Mokie and Bik

MOKIE AND BIK
Written by Wendy Orr
Illustrated by Jonathan Bean
Henry Holt, 2007

Category: Elementary Fiction

I planned to tell you about MOKIE AND BIK today, even before I discovered that someone else had the same idea.

So I will send you instead to the blog of writer Linda Urban, where you can see why I simply had to buy the book in the first place.

And then I’ll send you to the blog of writer and poet Kelly Fineman, where you can read an in depth review of MOKIE AND BIK.

And I may as well say, since I had planned to anyway, that I found MOKIE AND BIK quite a fun book to read aloud, what with all the delicious made-up and mixed-up words. I read it to my three fiskies in one sitting: the wordplay kept my older two interested, and the wholly unexpected (and heretofore unimagined) drama of children living on a boat enchanted my younger.

Thanks for the tip, Linda. And thanks for doing the hard part, Kelly.