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wrentheblurry's review against another edition
1.0
This was a difficult book for me to virtually shelve, for I'm not quite sure where it belongs. It's kind of a picture book, but it really doesn't seem meant for kids, even though Maurice Sendak wrote it. I finally looked at where my library classified it, and I see it's in the poetry section. This makes sense.
I don't care much for poetry. I did enjoy Shakespeare a great deal, decades ago, when I was in high school. I never read A Winter's Tale. I found My Brother's Book confusing, odd, and disappointing. I read the foreward multiple times. I read another blurb I found. Eh, it doesn't matter. The artwork was also not to my taste. Pass!
I don't care much for poetry. I did enjoy Shakespeare a great deal, decades ago, when I was in high school. I never read A Winter's Tale. I found My Brother's Book confusing, odd, and disappointing. I read the foreward multiple times. I read another blurb I found. Eh, it doesn't matter. The artwork was also not to my taste. Pass!
cstoeger's review against another edition
Although it is a picture book, I would recommend this book to older children. Such a fitting conclusion to a wonderful career.
teachingkj's review against another edition
4.0
Saw this in a bookstore and had to buy it. It's an odd little story and I'm not quite sure what it's about- other than longing for the companionship of a dead brother.
beths0103's review against another edition
Not sure how I feel about this book. I need to think about this one.
annebennett1957's review against another edition
4.0
Such talent in verse and illustrating (here in watercolors), Sendak is one of kind. Here a story which seems to be all jumbled up in mythology and Shakespeare, is of Guy looking for his brother Jack. In Sendak's world "love often takes the form of menace, and safe havens are reached, if they are reached at all, only after terrifying adventures." (Book jacket)
Read as part of my challenge to read more poetry during April, National Poetry Month 2019.
Read as part of my challenge to read more poetry during April, National Poetry Month 2019.
turrean's review against another edition
3.0
Found this beautiful but mysterious. Like when I was 14 and had to read poetry I didn't understand. I can sense meaning beneath the surface but can't break the ice.