But, once you get the hang for her style of speech you will find yourself totally absorbed by the wet, humid, magically crackling world that Ingrid Law creates in this book. The dazzling, swirling words of this book and the rampant similes, rich descriptions and southernisms of Mississippi Beaumont, also known as Mibs, the thirteen year old narrator of the book might take a little getting used to. I discovered that the words inside the book are just as dazzlingly, swirlingly, colorfully beautiful as the cover art, which I sincerely hope they do not change for the paperback edition.
And once I did start reading Savvy I completely embraced it. As every reader knows, sometimes you have to come across a book at just the right time for you to really embrace it.
Yet, when I read the flap nothing clicked with me at the time. Unsurprisingly, it was voted Favorite Book Jacket of 2008 by Publishers Weekly Magazine.
The cover, by the amazingly gifted and busy children's book illustrator Brandon Dorman is so dazzlingly beautiful that it was impossible not to pick up and read the flap. One of the corporate book buyers at Barnes & Noble must have thought it would be big (which it is) because we got a huge stack for our summer reading table. Savvy came out in May of 2008 and won a Newbery Honor in 2009.
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