Mr. Barsin's Toy Emporium

<p><span>Wickstrom offers the reader an interesting unusual and carefully delineated range of characters.</span></p><p><span>...a story full of wonders that nonetheless manages to present some mysteries for those who visit the emporium and find the magic door that leads to a garden that simultaneously exists in spring summer fall and winter.</span></p><p><span> Some of the vocabulary will be challenging but the somewhat complex syntax offers wonderful opportunities for an adult reader to animate the story while reading it aloud to kids.</span></p><p><span> BookLife Prize 2021 </span></p><p><br></p>