Review: Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers

Kid You Not Podcast by Lauren and Clementine

Sep 18, 2011Kids & family

Playing on repetition, apparently very dear to child readers,but adding a surrealistic twist to it, Stuck, Oliver Jeffers’s latest picturebook, is 100% efficient. Premise: a little boy gets his kite stuck in a tree...

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