Under the Egg

I bought this from Laura Marx Fitzgerald at least year's Princeton Children's Book Festival because it looked intriguing and she promised me that it was like the Westing Game. I think that's a decently fair synopsis – a fun YA romp, with lots of puzzles that are not too clever for the young adult set, but not so juvenile to make the book unreadable to an adult reader.

What really made Under the Egg stand out for me was the way that it made art accessible to an art-naive reader, such as me and most of the YA set. Without being pedantic or preachy, Fitzgerald's evocative descriptions of art, and her loving understanding of how and why paintings are made will stick with me for awhile.