made forts and racecars and castles,
but we didn't use magic cardboard like Cam has!
Hopefully, we don't have evil neighbors like Marcus either... (stealing a guy's only birthday present, when it's just made with a cardboard box...sheesh!)
The creator of Earthworm Jim of video-game fame and the recent graphic novel hit Ghostopolis (my review here) brings another fantasy world to life in full-color, so find it now at your local library or independent bookstore.
Cardboard has already been optioned to become an animated feature film, but you'll have time to read it first... and keep an eye out for that Marcus.
**kmm
Book info: Cardboard / Doug TenNapel. Graphix (Scholastic), 2012. [author's website] [publisher site] [video author interview] [inside TenNapel's sketchbooks]
My Recommendation: Worst birthday gift ever: a cardboard box… but Cam’s widower
dad took their last few cents to buy it from a strange fellow who gave them
rules about how to use it. So the teen and his dad bend and cut the box into
the shape of a man, a boxer who magically comes to life!
Bill the boxer-guy talks to them, will mow the lawn, wants
to be a real friend to Cam – but his cardboard can’t withstand the
water-cannons of neighborhood bully Marcus. Taking the leftover cardboard bits
(despite the seller’s warnings), Cam creates a cardboard-making-machine that
allows him to repair Bill… and tempts the very evil Marcus into wicked plans
and plots that might destroy everything.
TenNapel’s detailed drawings underscore the
barely-hanging-on desperation of Cam and his depressed dad, the manic gleam in
Marcus’s conniving eyes, and the contempt that the rampaging Cardboard bad guys have for good-fellow Bill and the “fleshies”
he tries to protect in this outstanding graphic novel from the creator of Ghostopolis. (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.
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