Little, Brown, 17 (40p) ISBN 978-8-8 On an island of imaginary friends waiting to be picked by a child and given a. Affirming thoughts abound (“thinking about his friend gave him the courage to journey on”), but fans may miss the cracked humor of Santat’s more irreverent work. The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend Dan Santat. About the Author Dan Santat is the Caldecott Medal-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, Are We There Yet, and After the Fall as well as the illustrator of many other picture books, including Crankenstein by Samantha Berger. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again, he sets off on an incredible journey to the bustling city, where he finally meets his perfect match and-at long. This magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. The third-person retelling weighs the story down somewhat-there’s no conversation-and the pace drags as Beekle’s search has more obstacles than it needs to. The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend. Santat (Crankenstein), a versatile and talented illustrator, ranges wide, drawing underwater ocean scenes, grim cityscapes, and appealing alien creatures. A sweet sequence shows the two shifting and blushing next to each other she turns to him with his new name: “Beekle.” He’s overjoyed. The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat (Goodreads Author) 4. No one stopped to hear the music.” At last, his human appears: she’s a geeky, mop-headed girl who likes to draw.
He sets sail in a small boat, but the sea serpents and whales he encounters are not nearly as daunting as the real world, which is gray and pedestrian: “No kids were eating cake. On an island of imaginary friends waiting “to be picked by a child and given a special name,” one friend-he’s adorably pudgy, and wears a paper crown-resolves to wait no longer.
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