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The Night Riders
by
Matt Furie
In Matt Furie’s glorious debut, a nocturnal frog and rat awake at midnight, share a salad of lettuce and bugs, and strike out on an epic dirtbike adventure toward the sunrise. As the friends make their way from forest to bat cave to ghost town to ocean to shore and beyond, new friends are discovered, a huge crab is narrowly avoided, and a world is revealed. Packed with col...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
August 7th 2012
by McSweeney's McMullens
(first published December 13th 2011)
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I picture "The Night Riders" picking up where "Goodnight Moon" ends, visually describing what happens when everyone is asleep. (The crescent moon peaking through the window of the house of the frog and mouse, whose story this is, at the start suggested "GM" to me.) Frog and mouse's adventures take place under cover of the night, under ground, and under sea--all the places where mysterious, usually unseen creatures live, most of them friendly toward or benignly uninterested in frog and mouse. Tow...more
Since this is a McSweeney's McMullens imprint, you get the trademark book cover that unfolds to a double-sided poster. The book dispenses with the opening title and printing information to dive directly into the journey. Kids want to dive into the story not flip through copyright information, so the placement at the end of the story puts those words where they belong.
The details are incredible and it's impossible to guess what is on the next page. (I really enjoyed the garage door opener that ap...more
The details are incredible and it's impossible to guess what is on the next page. (I really enjoyed the garage door opener that ap...more
Imaginative and a bit odd. A fantastical wordless road trip with a frog and a mouse. Reminded me a bit of Maurice Sendak.
Weird and random. Illustrations are nice but it is a little too trippy for a children's picture book, in my opinion.
Kind of a fantasy road-trip - visually interesting
Frog and Mouse go on an adventure.
yes, good book
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