The Ghost of the Blanes Museum

About this book

"With Spanish words peppering the story, found in the illustrations, and always apparent from the context, this is an ebullient story winningly told and with a very unusual angle: older man moves through grief and finds a new friend. Readers see enough of Quica to adore her, too, and this is a side of married life-aging but animated, curious about everything, deeply in love-that is not often glimpsed in picture books. VERDICT A simple ghost story and a mystery, too, but with substantial life lessons that are charming and memorable." -Ginnie Abbott, School Library Journal