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By Minh Lê
Illustrated by Dan Santat
Disney-Hyperion, 2020. Picture Book.

Lê and Santat have made yet another beautiful book! (If you haven’t yet read Drawn Together, then please go out and put that one on hold as well—and you can read my review here where I tell you all why I don’t think that book should be missed!)

Anyway, back to the story at hand. In Lift a young girl named Iris is frustrated that her job of pushing the elevator button has been usurped by her younger sibling. This causes an increasingly large amount of resentment and frustration. When an elevator in the building is being fixed, Iris swipes the old elevator button and puts it in her room so that she can push it as much as she wants without her brother getting in the way. Only, when she pushes the button in her room something magical happens—she is transported into a jungle (with a tiger that is somewhat reminiscent of Iris’ brother’s stuffed toy). And so the adventures being, though along the way Iris discovers that maybe, just maybe it is okay to have her brother be part of the adventures too. Brilliant. Really. You should all go put this one on hold now. Because you won’t want to miss it.
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