The Haunted Lake
By P. J. Lynch
Illustrated by P. J. Lynch
By P. J. Lynch
Illustrated by P. J. Lynch
Category: Children's Picture Books
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$17.99
Sep 08, 2020 | ISBN 9781536200133 | 7-10 years
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Praise
This comfortably eerie ghost/undying-love story is unvarnished and competently told, but the illustrations make it sublime. Created with watercolor and gouache—a choice that embraces the story’s watery setting…Satisfying and visually superb.
—Kirkus Reviews
With atmospheric spreads and suitably eerie prose, Lynch (Patrick and the President) spins a long-winded yarn about a drowned village…it offers a potent escapist fantasy, especially Lilith’s underwater world, which radiates goth allure as fish swim through the bedroom, curtains billow, and a green fire burns magically in the grate.
—Publishers Weekly
Watercolor and gouache art plays effectively with light as it shimmers along the top of the lake or creepily glows from under it, and the fluid greenish gloom of the underwater village contrasts with the hearty Irish landscape above. This could be an entertaining read for youngsters who warm to folkloric supernatural stories with just enough chill to make the happy ending satisfying.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Mr. Lynch’s mesmerizing watercolor and gouache paintings are divided between the 19th-century world above Lake Spetzia and the village beneath it that was years ago drowned to create a reservoir… his pictures are masterly. Readers ages 7-12 will not soon forget these creepy and stirring scenes.
—The Wall Street Journal
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