Astonishingly creative and strange. This graphic novel is jam-packed with delightful oddities, like a dapper eloquent bear with a giant basket backpack, a tiny witchy woman with huge eyes making potions from the sun (which is worm), massive crows who draw birds-eye maps, a night swim in a cave full of stars, and an aerial tramway over a hidden village.

It's strange on a level where I'm not sure it will have a big audience, but I hope it does. I enjoy a book that mixes magic and reality. To go along with the fabulism, this book has a lot of facts about astronomy and touches on the main character's struggle to follow his conscience when his friends bully a nerdy schoolmate.

I can't say I fully understood how this uncanny world operated, but I really enjoyed it. ( )

7/10, a good fantasy novel. ( )

Excellent. Falls apart slightly towards the very end, but overall excellent. ( )

This book is so lush and gorgeous. It tackles a lot of issues middle schoolers deal with, and it handles these issues so beautifully. I went into it knowing nothing about the plot, and I highly recommend this experience. ( )

This graphic novel is absolutely gorgeous and just the right level of dreamy-magical. If you like Hayao Miyazaki's work, you should definitely give this one a go, as it has the same blurred boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary. I did my second reading in total awe of the art.

Another blah review because I wasn't able to write this up immediately after finishing...but seriously, I liked this one a lot and highly recommend it. ( )