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I love this book.

Let’s start with the artwork. It was created digitally. It is amazing. The artwork is a whole creative universe of imagination. I just love it.

We see two people, a girl and a monster looking tiger playing together. The text talks about how much fun they had and that the person was real to me. We know we are in imaginary friend territory. It’s such a wonderful little story.

The one person left is so sad and missing their friend. Why did they go away? There was so much fun. Why did it come to an end?

Kids who love imagination and fantastic stories will love this. It’s a ground breaking work. This is one of my favorite books of the year and I would put it on Caldecott watch.



Spoilers:






So, the neat thing about this book is that there is a twist. We aren’t following the girl, we are following the imaginary friend. We see how lonely the friend is and it doesn’t understand why the girl left. It meets other imaginary friends at the end to be friends with, but it’s not the same thing. He always wonders what his girl is up to.

Brilliant story crafting.