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Harvey (2010)

by Herve Bouchard(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1554980755 (ISBN13: 9781554980758)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Groundwood Books

review 1: Harvey is a young boy with a taller younger brother and he has a happy family. He's always believed in a story called the shrinking man especially when his father passed away and he's confused about the concept. Everyone was feeling sympathetic and trying to help his family with their loss. But when Harvey sees his father in a coffin everything finally makes sense and he learns to move on. I picked up this book because I've never read a graphic novel before and I think I should. I wanted to read a book that didn't take too much time and I really do miss illustrations in books. I finished this book because it was easy to read also the story was very well told. The illustrations were very suitable with the story. I don't really know who to recommend this to but I would... more recommend this to a person who likes to read short stories.
review 2: HARVEY is not a book to read if you don't want to be depressed, but it's THE book to read when you are depressed. If we wanted books to find readers in their own time, the way HARVEY made its way to me is the stuff of book marketers' dreams. A librarian handed me a copy not knowing I had at one time worked for Groundwood Books, just that she thought I'd dig it, nor did she know (or I) that soon there'd be a significant death in the family and that the youth would have trouble understanding the loss or its weight on their mother, my partner. In the days that followed, I sat in bed at night, her head in my lap, and read HARVEY aloud.There's no sunny ending that awaits the reader. The clouds don't part. There's no catharsis. Instead, it concludes on a somber note of new beginnings and what it must feel like to be a child who will spend his life growing up without a father.Janice Nadeau's illustrations are particularly stunning, an absolute perfect rendering of the sensation of loss: sparse, somewhat foggy, and faded. less

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