One of the best, funniest, moving and most beautiful looking books I have read in some time.Badger gets a roomate, after three years of comfortable seclusion in Aunt Lulu's Brownstone; enter Skunk. His settled existence is thrown into a whirlwind of dissaray and rapid change and poor Badger has a hard time keeping up. All at once there are chickens. Lots and lots of chickens. Which attracts the attention of natures primary chicken predator.
This book has so much charm I want to move into it. It might look like a wee book but its got Tardis-like interior dimensions that only reveal themselves in reading. It was Jon Klasson's extraordinary art that initially drew me. I found his art irresistable and his use of colour an auntumnal magnet. Combine Jon Klasson's world building art with some sublime, and yet hysterical storytelling by Amy Timberlake, and you have a book that proves itself a keeper.Rife with strong characterisation and compelling interconnectiveness, it felt funny and enriching. Skunk emerges as a complex and complicated character who feels very real indeed. And Jon Klasson's beautifully rendering of the world in which Skunk and Badgerfind themselves feels very rea.
with my heart and soul wishing it were so.
