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<p>Starred Review in 3/15 Booklist<p>&#160;<p>With her mother gone and a father who has better things to do than be bothered raising a daughter, Evelyn is sent to live with her unconventional aunt Lia in the bohemian art world of 1942 New York City. Lia isn&#8217;t shaping up to be much of a caretaker, but Evelyn spends much time in the company of imaginary super-heroes, fouling up the plans of Nazi spies. Before long she finds an unlikely friend in the building superintendent&#8217;s son, Tony. Together, they negotiate the complexities of their different social strata and, always sniffing around for trouble, stumble upon an actual Nazi plot. With stupefying precision, Dizin&#8217;s art channels Herg&#233;&#8217;s Tintin in tone, palette, and with the remarkable expressiveness of the clean, flexible figures. He also echoes the Belgian master&#8217;s sense of fun and action, even as Kim and Klavan put a sophisticated spin on classic boys&#8217; adventure story elements and handle issues

<p>Starred Review in 3/15 Booklist <p>With her mother gone and a father who has better things to do than be bothered raising a daughter, Evelyn is sent to live with her unconventional aunt Lia in the bohemian art world of 1942 New York City. Lia isn't shaping up to be much of a caretaker, but Evelyn spends much time in the company of imaginary super-heroes, fouling up the plans of Nazi spies. Before long she finds an unlikely friend in the building superintendent's son, Tony. Together, they negotiate the complexities of their different social strata and, always sniffing around for trouble, stumble upon an actual Nazi plot. With stupefying precision, Dizin's art channels Herge's Tintin in tone, palette, and with the remarkable expressiveness of the clean, flexible figures. He also echoes the Belgian master's sense of fun and action, even as Kim and Klavan put a sophisticated spin on classic boys' adventure story elements and handle issues of friendship, economic class, and abandonment. And with villains and danger that just border on the genuinely scary, the tale is filled not only with a thrilling sense of excitement but also with a child's longing for a grown-up to believe in.<p> -- Jesse Karp <p>Review in 4/1 Kirkus Spring/Summer Preview<p>It's wartime in New York City and spies are everywhere, or so it seems to young Evelyn, an aspiring writer of comics, and her new friend Tony. Their adventure, told with seat-of-the-pants, graphic-novel immediacy, is an artful melding of jewel-box illustration with noir atmosphere--Tintin directed by Hitchcock. Still, the story's slant is all its own. We had an elderly friend who, as a little girl, chased imaginary Nazi spies in New York City during WWII, say Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan. As she told us, the years disappeared and, in her face, we saw the child having the adventure...She didn't live to see the book, but we take comfort, for what we know, in that she helped win the war. The snappy, uncluttered tale has a

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SUSAN KIM has written for more than three dozen children's TV series, including Reading Rainbow and Are You Afraid of the Dark? and received four Emmy nominations. Ms. Kim teaches in the MFA program at Goddard College. City of Spies is her first book for children. LAURENCE KLAVAN wrote the novels ""The Cutting Room"" and ""The Shooting Script,"" both published by Ballantine, and has also written screenplays and teleplays for Tri-Star, Warner Brothers, and the USA Network. City of Spies is his first book for children. PASCAL DIZIN grew up in a small town on the West Coast. He studied cartooning at the School of Visual Arts. He lives in New York City, where he continues to draw comics: City of Spies is his first book.

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