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May 14, 2010
Lisa Vegan
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I love to read, and I love words, but I also love art and I have found many wordless picture books that I’ve admired and enjoyed.
This wordless picture book was not my cup of tea at all.
It was too creepy for me; sometimes I like creepy, but not here.
It was a Caldecott Honor Book, but I wasn’t wild about the illustrations. Once again, they were too creepy, and too garish, and just not to my taste. I liked parts of several of the illustrations and enjoyed a few of them, but overall I didn’t like th ...more
This wordless picture book was not my cup of tea at all.
It was too creepy for me; sometimes I like creepy, but not here.
It was a Caldecott Honor Book, but I wasn’t wild about the illustrations. Once again, they were too creepy, and too garish, and just not to my taste. I liked parts of several of the illustrations and enjoyed a few of them, but overall I didn’t like th ...more

Weird and wonderful wordless picture book. I loved it as a child and now love reading it with my two-year-old. I'm still discovering details in the illustrations, and the story has both drama and joyfulness.
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