B is for Beer is a halfway book,
neither truly a book for children nor fully a book for adults; but that halfway condition
works to the books favour. B is for Beer is delightful piece
of whimsy about a young girl, her family and beer and the girls adventures with a
beer fairy. During the course of the story Gracie Perkel gets to learn a bit about life
and a lot about beer: how it is made, its history and uses, and how beer affects people.
She also suffers bitter disappoints (sometimes caused by beer, but often not) and much
happiness.
B is for Beer even allows for a sequel of sorts about
sugar elves but I suspect that that would be a long time coming. In the meantime I
shall wait for the beer fairy to visit me
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