Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild, Anne Spudvilas
My rating: 4/5 cats
when i was volunteering at the library, i was about to shelve this book, but something about the cover intrigued me, and made me flip through it idly. and that’s when i came across a familiar face!! the rest of the book looked pretty cool, so i ordered it into my store and bought myself a copy, and now i can hang out with miriam anytime i want!! i may have missed out on the goodreads.com san francisco gathering, but nothing can stop me from having my own, sad imaginary party here at home:
THIS IS A PICTURE OF ME AND THE BOOK CONTAINING MIRIAM’S AVATAR, AS THOUGH WE ARE BEST FRIENDS HANGING OUT IN MY APARTMENT.
this book is totally haunting. it is not a typical cut-and-dried children’s book; there is no moral, there is no happy ending. i’m not even sure if there is a story here. this is more like a fragment of a larger, unwritten piece that spooks you a little and gives you skull-echoes, and a desire to look over your shoulder. the whole thing is more of a tone-story, with ambiguous happenings and contradicting viewpoints. is it a true apocalypse story?? is the narrator mad?? some things point towards one interpretation, some to t’other. for a picture book with relatively few words, it could potentially lead to hours of discussion.
and once i realized it was the same woman who had given the world Fox, it all clicked. the madness!! this woman is awesome! and i know our dear miriam has read a bunch of her other books, and this inspires me to get to the bottom of what makes her (margaret wild) tick, and why she creates such fantastically dark and disorienting children’s books. WHAT IS SHE PLANNING??
i love this book.
it makes my brain itch.
watch out for woolvs.
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