Mouse Bird Snake Wolf

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The dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean bring us a complete story set in an incomplete world. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf is a 2013 graphic novel, written by David Almond and illustrated by David McKean. McKean’s illustrations appear in books by authors such as Neil Gaiman, David Almond, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King to name a few. With days spent boasting about their creation and sleeping in the clouds, they leave their creation to fend for itself, parents turning a blind eye for a moments peace – but at what cost?

Counting Stars (2000) is a collection of children’s stories, again inspired by the author’s memories of his own childhood and family, and a selection of stories from this volume was published separately in March 2002 under the title Where Your Wings Were, as one of five World Book Day publications. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf has also been reviewed by Booklist, [4] Library Media Connection magazine, [4] The Horn Book Magazine, [4] The School Library Journal, [4] Reading Time, [5] and The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. This was followed by The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas (2012) a children’s book illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, Mouse Bird Snake Wolf (2013) with illustrator Dave McKean, A Song for Ella Grey (2014) and The Tightrope Walker (2014), a novel for young adults, and The Colour of the Sun (2018). A powerful and thought-provoking text, illustrated in graphic novel-style, which will enable children to explore the beauty and dangers of nature as well as the importance of boundaries and self-restraint. Something that was un-tamable, a nightmare, something that they had no control over…could this be a projection of hurt and suffering or is this what happens when people are given too much power?The imagination of three children takes on unexpected life in a creation tale from the dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean.

David Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and grew up in the small mining town of Felling. His first children’s novel, Skellig, the story of a strange, part-human ‘creature’ who transforms the lives of two young children forever, was published to immediate acclaim in 1998. The gods have created a world - they've built mountains, a sea and a sky - and now their days are filled with long naps in the clouds (and tea and cake). Make sure to look into the author and subject of this one because it isn't for the average reader/family. The words and the Illustrations work in harmony with one another and cause this book to have an endearing, breathtaking quality to it – a story that is accessible for all…it’s something very special indeed.No spoilers, but it built tension wonderfully, and I enjoyed what happened to two of the children, as I think children's fiction can sometimes shy away from fully embracing the consequences of a characters actions.