![]() ![]() ![]() Set in a strongly geometric, New York City landscape of blue and grey, the bird slowly gains the boy’s trust, singing and mucking around, offering companionship when the boy is teased and ignored by the children around him. Wordless equals powerful.īluebird charts the growth of a friendship between a bullied schoolboy and a little bird. They are emotion filled and dark at times but are ultimately works of exquisite beauty. It started with Shaun Tan’s Rules of Summer, followed by JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith’s Sidewalk Flowers (see separate reviews of both) and now BLUEBIRD. These books require time and conversation. Wordless books exploring big heady topics - the nature of true friendship, selflessness, loneliness, longing, death, hope - have been finding their way to our tepee over the past few months. There is something going on in the world of children’s publishing and in the case of BLUEBIRD it is breathtaking. ![]()
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