Peculiar Picks are a selection of odd, funny, interesting, curious, moving, irreverent, and otherwise wonderfully awesome, but perhaps not well known, reads. Peculiar Picks are books for younger readers and their grown-ups, handpicked by the Library's Youth Services Manager, Joshua Carlson.

Pearl by Molly Idle
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Pearl by Molly Idle is many things.

It is

• emotional and moving.
• a story of mothers and daughters.
• a quasi-creation myth.
• gorgeously illustrated.

It is

• filled with mermaids, and krakens and a lush, fully-realized underwater world.
• about responsibility and finding one’s place and your importance in the world.
• a parable on how the smallest individuals can make the biggest impact.

It is also a book I absolutely adore.