Tina's Reading Books

I've always found Van Allsburg's art somewhat disturbing for children's books. I'm so used to kids' books with the bight saturated colors and the nonthreatening pictures of people and animals. So when I see Van Allburg's pictures with their sepia tones and vaguely sinister looking people I am somewhat put off.

The story of Probuditi is actually unobjectionable. It is the story of a young boy who tries to hypnotize his sister and the sister who turns the tables. But there is one picture of the little girl, squatting over a dog's bowl lapping up milk that I recoiled when I saw it. It was really off-putting to me.

My husband loves Van Allsburg's work and I admit I liked a on or two of his books, most notably Jumanji. But overall he is not my cup of tea and this book, well this one... just ...no.