\u201cEverybody in Ireland knows that banshees are supernatural harbingers of doom.\u201d Referred to as bansheenies when they are young, these fairies grow in pods. Each banshee forms an unshakable link with the first human they see until one day, the banshee bursts forth to \u201chowl the banshee\u2019s howl at them\u201d\u2014a sign that the human is about to die. (Apart from that, banshees and humans don\u2019t interact.) Beanie is knocked loose from her pod during the all-important bonding phase and finds herself unable to glean all the knowledge she needs about her human, Rose. As Beanie struggles to do her job, she connects with Rose on a much deeper level than most banshees do with their humans. When Beanie learns of a powerful storm that will destroy Rose\u2019s cottage, Beanie appears to Rose, warning her of her family\u2019s fate and helping them escape certain death\u2014all conveyed in thrilling, moody swirls of color across several spreads. After much soul-searching, Beanie decides to set aside her grim life tasks and instead further her bond with Rose and continue to \u201clearn the songs of the elements.\u201d With their Celtic green palette, McCarthy\u2019s spirited digital illustrations are full of life, propelling the narrative forward with motion. They pair well with Colfer\u2019s joyful text, which echoes the storytelling tradition of fairy tales with clever descriptions and effective page turns. Rose and her family are brown-skinned.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cEverybody in Ireland knows that banshees are supernatural harbingers of doom.\u201d Referred to as bansheenies when they are young, these fairies grow in pods. Each banshee forms an unshakable link with the first human they see until one day, the banshee bursts forth to \u201chowl the banshee\u2019s howl at them\u201d\u2014a sign that the human is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}