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Don't forget to read Shaun Tan. Using his inimitable Salvador-Dali-meets-Hieronymus-Bosch-meets-Doctor-Seuss style, Tan produces another apparently effortless masterpiece. Surely the best children's book author/illustrator in the world. I can't think who else is even in the running.

This guy is a genius. Author and illustrator extraordinaire. His stories have real meaning, his drawings have a life of their own. Short and concise, two boys have a fun summer full of all good things and games to be played.. but the longer the summer spans.. the darker things turn. I love "Never

I believe it is more difficult to describe a Shaun Tan book than it is to feel a Shaun Tan book. They are a mood conveyed through otherworldly pictures and contrasting ideas. This Shaun Tan book is a book for children. I boy describes the rules he learns over a summer with his brother. The artwork i Leggi tutto

When I was a young teen my favorite book was Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine . Steeped in Bradbury's nostalgia for his youth, I was in the throes of adolescence, probably on some level nostalgic for my own younger days. In this book I reveled in a childhood that was not my own but felt personal just th Leggi tutto

When you are a child, anything can happen. At least that's what it feels like, as your expectations are not yet based on a whole lot of sobering experience. Who knows what would happen if you did something you are not supposed to do?! Say, if you left the back door open overnight! Or if you gave you Leggi tutto

This story makes absolutely no sense! The illustrations are weird. All my 4 year old sun did was say why after every sentence. I would give it no stars but I'm not allowed. Don't waste your time!

How do you review a Shaun Tan book? Each time I open Rules of Summer I find a different book. I remember my excitement on being offered a sneak peek a few months ago. I was left feeling a little bewildered. Did I like it? I don’t think I did on that first look. Then a few months later I was given an a Leggi tutto

3.5 stars. Two boys make up rules for games, silly, fun and dangerous games, the sort of games children used to play when they were left to roam about for the summer with some exaggerated fantasy elements thrown in. An important message at the end 'never miss the last day of summer' - the last day o Leggi tutto