One Year at Ellsmere Bianca Bagnarelli Tintin takes up the trail

Tintin takes up the trail which leads him to a small Scottish island and into the den of the counterfeiters

solving the case seems near impossible

Looshkin might look like a cute blue cat

She sketches this journey with wry humor and her characteristic empathy

each pen stroke economically imbued with human depth

One Year at Ellsmere Bianca Bagnarelli Tintin takes up the trailBy Fait Erin Hicks. Published by Macmillan. Softcover, 176 pages, B&W, 2020 (originally published as "The War at Ellsmere" in 2008) With revamped art, One Year at Ellsmere is an endearingand surprisingmiddle grade friendship story from beloved author Faith Erin Hicks! Was boarding school supposed to be this hard? When studious thirteen year old Juniper wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ellsmere Academy, she expects to find a scholastic utopia. But