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Reviewed by Lee Ashford for Readers' Favorite
The Sasquatch Escape by Suzanne Selfors is a fun story aimed at middle-graders, but is just as fun for adults who want to read something simple yet entertaining. Suzanne Selfors has a marvelous imagination, and it shines in The Sasquatch Escape. Young Ben Silverstein’s parents were going through a rough time in their marriage, so they decided to send Ben to spend the summer with his grandfather, Abe, in the small town of Buttonville. Formerly famed for its handmade buttons, after the advent of machine made buttons their factory closed, and the town pretty well dried up. Now the highlight of the citizenry is Pudding Night at the Senior Center. While Grandpa Abe is driving Ben into Buttonville, Ben sees an enormous bird with a long tail flying through the clouds. Grandpa Abe is driving, so he doesn't see it, and just chalks it up as another of Ben’s infamous stories. But Ben soon meets Pearl Petal, a girl about his age, and she has seen the “bird”, too. After Abe’s cat, Barnaby, drops its injured prey on Ben’s bed, the two kids have a summer no story of Ben’s could ever come close to matching.
The Sasquatch Escape has everything a kid could hope to encounter during a middle school summer vacation. Dragons, fairies, a phoenix, rampaging wild squirrels, a large cat-man, a Cyclops, a mysterious “Worm” doctor called Dr. Woo, and of course the Sasquatch, all in the first few days, showing the children just what can happen when the Known World and the Imaginary World overlap for a time. After the two recapture the Sasquatch Ben inadvertently allowed to escape, Dr. Woo ponders whether to feed them to the Cyclops, hold them captive, or turn them loose; she finally decides to make them her summer interns, instead. Since this is sub-titled “Book 1”, I suspect and hope we’ll be hearing more about the children’s summer internship in books to come. Suzanne Selfors’ vivid imagination, committed to paper, is a gift to all readers. I submit this would be an ideal summer read for “bored” middle grade students. When they finish it, you can read it, too!
