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danicamidlil's review
4.0
Very creative! Liked it even though after reading, I felt the title was a little misleading... but it was a fun reveal.
corncobwebs's review
very cool concept - you can either read each of 3 stories individually, or you can read them together to get the whole picture. in this book, the first 2 stories focus on the imaginary adventures of alex and drew. in the third story, readers see how their adventures in a park translated into imaginary tea parties and dragon-riding adventures. the art was kind of giving me [a:Jim Woodring|106115|Jim Woodring|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1241653295p2/106115.jpg], but like off-brand jim woodring (ie i wasn't super impressed by it). but i LOVED how the characters are very ambiguous, gender-wise - i think the main point of the book is that you can't tell which is the boy character and which is the girl character, which means that maybe the boy character likes having tea parties and the girl character likes flying around on dragons. I love anything that subverts gender stereotypes, and i think this book does a great job of that.
antsneversleep's review
3.0
2.5 The three different stories in one is clever, but could potentially be problematic/challenging for new/younger readers.
libraryelf's review
3.0
The concept of this wordless picture book is great. Two characters play their own stories but both intertwine in the real world setting of the third panel. There is also the added bonus of it being a gender neutral story. The introductory, end pages (interior front cover and back) let you know how to read the story. Reading the story though is another matter. There is a lot going on in the panels and, for my brain for some reason, it was just too much to read in this graphic novel. I found it a challenge to maintain the various stories and to see what happened at the same time in real time. For some readers, this book will be the most amazing thing ever. For others, this is going to be very confusing to read especially because of the 3-6 ways to read it.
nocilantroextraolives's review
3.0
The cover is very eye-catching and, overall, I liked it.
The feel of the book is fun and light and definitely brings to mind summer days full of day dreams as a kid. The art is lovely, though I would have preferred it be bigger. But I think that's just my problem - I read it on my ipad.
The whole story, however, could have been about three panels. Maybe nine if you wanted to really drive the point home. I was expecting some sort of conflict and resolution, but that never came.
The book encapsulates the wonder of childhood imaginative play very well, but doesn't go much beyond that.
Still, at about 40 pages, I would recommend giving it a read.
The feel of the book is fun and light and definitely brings to mind summer days full of day dreams as a kid. The art is lovely, though I would have preferred it be bigger. But I think that's just my problem - I read it on my ipad.
The whole story, however, could have been about three panels. Maybe nine if you wanted to really drive the point home. I was expecting some sort of conflict and resolution, but that never came.
The book encapsulates the wonder of childhood imaginative play very well, but doesn't go much beyond that.
Still, at about 40 pages, I would recommend giving it a read.
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