The Centaur's Wife Grade 5 Battle of the Books 2024-2025 Ian De Haes’s heartfelt story

Ian De Haes’s heartfelt story and radiant illustrations highlight themes of self-confidence

"--New York Times Book Review

With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child

This time around

and even a drop of water

The Centaur's Wife Grade 5 Battle of the Books 2024-2025 Ian De Haes’s heartfelt storyAmanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures. Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed