Arthur A Levine Books/Scholastic,Australia 2008, US 2009
$19.99
96 pgs, YA
Rating: 4
Endpapers: Tiny grey-pencil sketches from the stories on cream background
Fifteen bizarre short stories - all that make you think, look further and deeper, put two and two together to make seven or fifty-four.....
Contents: a different postage stamp for each story - the denomination is the page number and the illustration is the same as within the story.
Illustrations: all distinctly different from each other, in most cases they either tell the story or are needed to tell part of the story.
A sampling of stories: ERIC: a foreign exchange student comes to stay with a family. He is the size of a large nut and lives in the pantry. One day he leaves without saying goodbye, but has left a garden planted in tiny bottlecaps , boxes, and found-things.
BROKEN TOYS: An Asian man dressed in a deep sea diver's garb (see cover) arrives mysteriously with a broken wooden horse and is allowed to mysteriously enter the grouchy next-door-neighbor's house.
DISTANT RAIN: A collaged story of lost bits of poems adding themselves to an enormous ball of poems that rains all over the city.
GRANDPA'S STORY: A weird pre-wedding trip...both in pictures and words.
All quite bizarre, using weird parts of the brain to decipher, a book of stories that will really grow on you.
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