Book Review: Who Done It?
book edited by John Scieszka
(And YOU, the Reader)
Summary from Goodreads:
A star-studded anthology
with a devilish hook, whose proceeds benefit 826nyc: the fabulous literacy
non-profit founded by Dave Eggers.
Can you imagine the most cantankerous
book editor alive? Part Voldemort, part Cruella de Vil (if she were a dude),
and worse in appearance and odor than a gluttonous farm pig? A man who makes no
secret of his love of cheese or his disdain of unworthy authors? That man is
Herman Mildew.
The anthology opens with an
invitation to a party, care of this insufferable monster, where more than 80 of
the most talented, bestselling and recognizable names in YA and children’s
fiction learn that they are suspects in his murder. All must provide alibis in
brief first-person entries. The problem is that all of them are liars, all of
them are fabulists, and all have something to hide...