Chasing the Shy Town

<p><span><i><b>New York Public Library, Best Children's Books of 2024 List</b></i></span></p>Senan uses his binoculars to spy out the Shy Town, a sweet little place on a hill, with winding streets and red and yellow roofs. Senan calls it the Shy Town because it often hides and is hard to find. <p><span>He tells his next-door friend Joshua about the Shy Town, and they set off, with Senan’s grandmother in a ramshackle wheelchair, to find this elusive place. Along the way they make friends with Paperboy. Who is, as you’d expect, a boy made of paper. </span><br></p><p><span>With the help of a kruckle (a sort of Shy Town creature) that they meet on their journey, they find the Shy Town, only its real name is Perfection, because it is absolutely perfect.</span><br></p><p><span>But all is not well in Perfection: the inhabitants are constantly worrying about making it more and more perfect.</span><br></p><p><span> But since more perfect than perfect is an impossibility, they are constantly exhausted. What can Senan and friends do to save the kruckles from their obsession with perfection?</span><br></p>