Marvelous Middle Grade Monday
The Beatryce Prophecy (Candlewick Press, 2021) by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Sophie Blackall is an unusual but appealing story.
It starts with a prophecy about a girl who will “unseat a king.” Next we meet Answelica, the goat, whom the monks fear. One day Brother Edik finds a child in the pen with the demon goat. Beatryce doesn’t remember anything but her name. And king’s soldiers are searching for her.
Kate is a two-time Newbery medalist and Sophie is a two-time Caldecott medalist.
Read about Kate’s many novels here, her picture books here, and her early chapter books here.
Check out all of Sophie’s children’s books here.