Showing posts with label young children;s fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label young children;s fiction. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2021

Twas the Night by Marin Darmonkow

Rating: WORTHY!

From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher.

This was a beautifully-done book, with twelve pages (double page spreads that is - very likely for each of the twelve days of Christmas!) and no text at all. It tells itself: a young wheelchair-traveling boy finds an injured dove and takes it home and cares for it until it's well, and in doing so dreams of flying away from his own confinement, just as the dove must also dream. Sweet story, beautiful sentiments, gorgeous Christmassy illustrations. I commend it fully as a worthy seasonal read.