Surprising enjoyment of Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle and Hansel and Gretel, after a run of bad experiences with his books, encouraged me to try another. Continue reading →
I've only read one of Neil Gaiman's children's books, The Wolves In the Walls, so I wasn't sure what to expect from this. This was adorable. Destructive. but adorable. The story takes maybe 50 words to tell, but it is set up so clearly you don't need many words...in fact the pictures tell the stor...
Chu's Day is a cute book. The illustrations are adorable. Pandas are adorable. The pun of the main character's name is adorable. Pretty much every aspect of the book is freakin' adorable.But there's not really much else to it.What Chu's Day boils down to is a story that builds and builds and builds ...
This is a good book for very young children.It is a day with Chu and his pa, going to library, going to the restaurant, going to circus. And chu wants to sneeze, almost sneeze, but didn't sneeze. The illustrations are likable.
The main strength of Chu's Day is the artwork by Adam Rex. He did an amazing job telling the story visually. I especially loved the wary and defeated expressions on Chu's parent's faces. They're scared to death the little guy's going to uncork a world-altering sneeze. And the drawings of Chu amping ...
Neil Gaiman’s picture books are sort of a mixed bag for me. I want to love them, but I don’t quite. I thought that Chu’s Day would break that trend, but the abrupt ending make that, unfortunately, impossible.
I've been looking forward to this FOREVER, so when Adam Rex posted the picture I had to go ahead and create an entry for the book.***The other picture book I checked out last night. Tash read it immediately, because she has adored pandas for a decade and because it's NEIL GAIMAN and ADAM REX. And th...
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