Townsend's Warbler | Literary Qualities

Books reviewers and other readers may be forgiven for having difficulty determining what the intended audience for Townsend's Warbler is. The publisher seems to think that the book is for older children and early young adults. Reviewer Roger Sutton thinks it is best suited to older readers. The book is short, suggesting suitability to early readers, yet its language and ideas are complex, suggesting an audience of mature readers. Older readers will probably miss the characterization that would have made Townsend and Nuttall more fully rounded, thus making their adventures all the...

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