"I was already working in sequences," she says, "but at some point I began to realize that I could combine my love for images and words in picture books for children." Phoebe's picture books include When Wind Bear Goes Dancing, What Night do the Angels Wander, and Go Away, Shelly Boo! Original art from When Win Before concentrating on creating books for children and young adults, Phoebe Stone had a very successful career established as a fine art's painter. During that time, she received two Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowships in painting and exhibited her work in many museums and galleries all around New England and New York City, and influenced many New England artists with her unique, brightly colored narrative and metaphorical style. With clever but restrained writing and an exciting plot, "The Romeo and Juliet Code" is a good read.Before concentrating on creating books for children and young adults, Phoebe Stone had a very successful career established as a fine art's painter. Felicity becomes quite familiar with Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden," and the plot resonates with each of those books, delicately. Soon, Felicity emerges as a first-rate Nancy Drew investigator. The American family appears eccentric and secretive. Felicity is very aware of being a British child, and she frequently writes in her journal that "on the whole, British children are."forgiving," and "proper." It's a demeanor that Felicity finds harder and harder to maintain.
America isn't in the war yet, but England is being bombed. Twelve-year-old Felicity Bathburn Budwig, raised in 1940s London, is being dropped off in Maine by her parents - whom she calls Winnie and Danny - to stay with her grandmother and assorted other relatives.
Instead of hormones and popularity, we get secret codes and intercultural clashes. The pleasure of this book is its carefully constructed unexpectedness. You'll look at the title and the cover - blue-jean-clad legs, pink sneakers and black sneakers, a blanket on the grass - and think: star-crossed young lovers.
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