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Review *When Frankie Made a Human*

Updated: Aug 11, 2023



by Rachel Delahaye 🧪

Illustrated by Maïté Schmitt 🔩

Published by Sweet Cherry Publishing 🍒




*Gruesomely Good & Monstrously Misunderstood*



THAT is the perfect way to catch someone's attention! Then the actual title tells me I 🔩MUST READ🔩 this book!!


Add in the superb cover illustration & design... I'm sold!

This is a great new story from Rachel Delahaye. Some things might seem a tiny bit familiar but, as with a lot of her other excellent books, there's a major twist.

Frankie is young, bright, curious & adventurous but it's hard to live by the rules in their very strict environment. Frankie doesn't live in your average town or village. Even food is grown to the exact requirements of the population to reduce waste.


Nobody is even allowed to create any more monsters to add to the headcount.

There must be more to life than endless study & becoming the next great triple-science frankencreature!

Frankie sees a loophole & tries to keep his idea a secret.

Everyone LOVES a map, right?


As with all the illustrations from the talented Maïté Schmitt, this map is very detailed & has so much to see, find & talk about.

Can you imagine travelling like Frankie via a zip-wire across the mountain valley to Gügensplat Castle? That sounds like a crazy-fun idea to me! Or crazy-scary 👀!

Things might not go exactly as Frankie hoped but the results will keep you wondering how everything is going to turn out.

This illustration is one of my favourites. The style & even the carefully chosen colour palette (used on the book cover) captures everything so well.

This is a super blend of story & illustration that will appeal to readers who are transitioning to longer books. Maïté Schmitt's detailed & original art style is such a perfect fit.

Suki's dolls are her friends. Frankie could see them in the window all the way from his castle. They looked weird! But a lot of things are weird in their own fabulous way in this story.

I am sure this will be a popular read for youngsters who love something a bit different!


It would be a fun at-home book & a great read-along book for a class, library or club.

It's fantastic that authors can be so creative, develop characters & write such a huge range of stories, bringing them to life for readers of all ages.


Rachel Delahaye is one of those very talented authors & we hope she'll continue to deliver stories that encourage children to read & have fun being immersed in exciting adventures.

Make sure you check out my reviews of Rachel Delahaye's other titles on Casey's Pages.





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