Where's My Cow? by
Terry Pratchett is my first experience with a children's picture book
to which I could easily assign the term 'plot twist'. Nothing about
the cover or title prepared me for the way the story would turn and
the change in the art within.
Melvyn Grant is a
really talented artist. He created art for this book that looks so
real as to look almost like a photograph at times, yet he also pulls
off great more typical children's picture book illustrations. I
dislike the garish reality of some of the picture-like illustrations
later in the book. In fact, I dislike them so much that I'm
beginning to think maybe I should prescreen children's picture books
to make sure they are acceptable because at least three of the
illustrations in this book were such that I didn't want my two
youngest to see.
Together, author and
illustrator won the Children's Winner of The Ankh-Morpork Librarian's
Award.
The story is good.
It's very much like something my husband would do with a story…
changing it to entertain our children. I can well imagine the fun
the baby in the story had at his father's antics!
The art is amazing.
Even though I didn't like the presence of a few of the portraits,
they are still masterfully executed.
Have you read
Where's My Cow by Terry Pratchett?
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