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Thing-Thing (2008)

by Cary Fagan(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0887768393 (ISBN13: 9780887768392)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Tundra Books

review 1: One of my favorite children's books of all times. A spoiled kid who has everything reacts with disdain when his desperate parents present him with a stuffed animal that's not quite a dog, cat, squirrel, rabbit, or mouse. As poor Thing-Thing falls helplessly past window after window of the high-rise hotel building, we see tiny vignettes about what's happening in each room and how the sight of Thing-Thing affects each person who sees it. I couldn't believe how much depth of story Fagan and Debon packed into each 2-page spread, with so few words. Thing-Thing finally stops falling and discovers that the world may be a pretty nice place after all.
review 2: This is a quirky little addition to the "favorite toy" category. Thing-Thing ("not quite a bunny rabbit, but n... moreot quite a dog either, not a bear, or a cat for that matter") is thrown from a 6th-floor hotel window by a spoiled child, and sees a little bit of a story through each window that he passes on the way down. AHA, I just got the story/story connection!! (Hmm, another interesting category would be something like "story house" -- books/movies that move in and out of small vignettes within a hotel, apartment, or city.)I liked Nicolas Debon's illustrations, with their dramatic angles -- very different from "Four Pictures by Emily Carr." I'm also interested in filling in the blanks of his career (the jacket flap tells me he worked for the French consulate in Toronto until "an illustration course opened new doors for him.") What else happened there?Favorite quote:"Thing-thing had hoped to be given to a child who would love it, and talk to it, and make it tea parties, and dress it up, and hang onto it when sad or lonely, and get it sticky with jam, and take it to bed." less

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