Wildwood
Colin Meloy [author], Carson Ellis [illustrator]
Pru's life was fairly normal until the day her baby brother Mac was kidnapped by a murder of crows and taken into the impassable Wilderness. Now she is going to go where no one ever goes with tag-along classmate Curtis as support. But even more unexpected for them are the factions of talking animals, political movements and so on in the three countries nestled within what has always been supposed to be an empty forest. Swept up by the current events, Pru just hopes she'll find Mac before anything else can happen.
Here is my broken record: I pick things up and I put them down. But then, later on, as though it was all a clever ruse, I buy them anyway. I know you know that I do it, because it comes up regularly. So does the notion of me buying a book
It's hard to explain, now, weeks and books after I finished it, quite what was so enjoyable about it. Yes, I know I need to be writing these immediately, but reading is quite often easier than writing is for time and thought's sake. Lame? I know that, too.
But both Pru and Curtis are believable and interesting characters to follow as they are pulled into the chaos of the wilderness. Meloy keeps the book from getting fluffy but also from being too political. He throws in a lot of the old darkness, in a way the realistic darkness, into the works--the battles, and there are a few, are not gruesome but not injury-free fluff. There is death, there is violence, there are gross points that lend some weight to the text. It's not just a cutesy little story with a pair of kids scampering about the forest with the help of bunnies and robins. This is an engaging story, well-written and thorough in its carriage and explanations. It is not off-putting to me that this is the beginning of a new series--although I do hope it is a short one. Also, even though there are lead-ins to the next book, I would be contented to see it remain alone.
Well, mostly content because I read so many other things. Were I to reread Wildwood, I am sure that I would impatiently tap my foot at not having another story to follow it up.
Colin Meloy [author], Carson Ellis [illustrator]
Pru's life was fairly normal until the day her baby brother Mac was kidnapped by a murder of crows and taken into the impassable Wilderness. Now she is going to go where no one ever goes with tag-along classmate Curtis as support. But even more unexpected for them are the factions of talking animals, political movements and so on in the three countries nestled within what has always been supposed to be an empty forest. Swept up by the current events, Pru just hopes she'll find Mac before anything else can happen.
Here is my broken record: I pick things up and I put them down. But then, later on, as though it was all a clever ruse, I buy them anyway. I know you know that I do it, because it comes up regularly. So does the notion of me buying a book
It's hard to explain, now, weeks and books after I finished it, quite what was so enjoyable about it. Yes, I know I need to be writing these immediately, but reading is quite often easier than writing is for time and thought's sake. Lame? I know that, too.
But both Pru and Curtis are believable and interesting characters to follow as they are pulled into the chaos of the wilderness. Meloy keeps the book from getting fluffy but also from being too political. He throws in a lot of the old darkness, in a way the realistic darkness, into the works--the battles, and there are a few, are not gruesome but not injury-free fluff. There is death, there is violence, there are gross points that lend some weight to the text. It's not just a cutesy little story with a pair of kids scampering about the forest with the help of bunnies and robins. This is an engaging story, well-written and thorough in its carriage and explanations. It is not off-putting to me that this is the beginning of a new series--although I do hope it is a short one. Also, even though there are lead-ins to the next book, I would be contented to see it remain alone.
Well, mostly content because I read so many other things. Were I to reread Wildwood, I am sure that I would impatiently tap my foot at not having another story to follow it up.
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