This book was fantastic. So simple but moving and the illustrations were brilliant. I don't think there is a book by David Almond i have not liked, My Name is Mina & Kit's Wilderness being my favourites. The story is very short by heart-felt and the illustrations match it perfectly. Everything David Almond does whether novel or picture book is always unusual but very cool and memorable. Great book! The story is brief and as in other David Almond stories the reader must suspend disbelief and accept exceptional even supernatural experiences and emotions of the characters. For me this is not difficult as Almond's prose style invites and mesmerises and it would not be courteous to deny the invitation. The text is brief and the illustrations by Dave McKean fill those spaces in the imagination and psyche of Slog that the author does not articulate.It seems to me that the book effectively and emotively uses words and pictures to allow the reader to sympathise and engage with feelings they would hopefully not have experienced at first hand, but if they had this book okays the notion that if you believe then sometimes the irrational and impossible may truly happen.
Perfect collaboration of text and art in this slightly creepy, but lovely book on loss and love.
—zeez
It's a great, ambiguous little story, and McKean's illustrations are brilliant, as always.
—mwmatara
really lovely.
—dragonflyahhh
