CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 1, 2009
"Fair insight, that, though trite and easier said than done. (Picture book. 6-9)"
Aimed at readers who enjoy such elaborately illustrated, strongly atmospheric ventures into mysterious worlds as Neil Gaiman's The Wolves in the Walls, illustrated by Dave McKean (2003), and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (1979), this episode briefly casts a young member of a stage magician's audience through a die-cut hole into that Place "between there and back again" where magicians' props and assistants go when they disappear.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 30, 1997
"It's a winning conceit, with ingenuous tongue-in-cheek illustrations, though, like Lane Smith's Happy Hocky Family (1993), some will find that much of the humor is pitched over the heads of its target audience. (Picture book. 5-7)"
Spiegelman (Maus, 1986, etc.) tries his hand at a picture book—it looks and smells like a book, but it earnestly (dare one say doggedly?) assures its readers that it's actually a puppy, transformed by an annoyed wizard after a series of mishaps.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 1997
"The story maintains a gentle air, captured by the whimsical drawings that lean more towards fantasy than jack-in-the-box bushwhacks. (Pop-up. 4-8)"
When breakfast begins with Aunt Zelda flying into the kitchen with a kite, the young narrator and her brother, Charlie, know it's no ordinary day.
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