Juvenile Nonfiction

52 Books. | September 2009
Babbitt, Natalie
NY: Scholastic, 1969
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I confess that I knew this song long before I knew of Babbitt’s children’s book. Panda Bear’s spiritual kinship with Delicious’s year of publication helps make the connection. The novel itself is an interesting fable about a poll to resolve the meaning of the word ‘delicious’ in a faraway kingdom: everyone disagrees about what it means, and their disagreements escalate nearly to civil war. But the convoluted plot, including a traitor to the king, an ancient mermaid and a lost doll, is contrived at best, and the main hook — that you cannot codify the subjective — is not on par with that of her best-loved book, Tuck Everlasting (though both feature a magical pool). Interesting at best.

Previous Book: 61. Jayber Crow. Next Book: 63. Introducing the sermon: the art of compelling beginnings.

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