I love this book but I have yet to find a child who agrees with me. Maybe a 9-year old? It’s a fascinating post-modern picture book with it’s intertwining stories and it’s overlapping time structure and so on but the chum found it a difficult combination of too advanced and boring.

I love how Macaulay makes the art styles very different for each story. The water colored train story couldn’t be more of a contrast to the very blocky abstraction of the cow and robber story, for example. And so when characters or ideas cross narratives, they look so different that kids don’t even recognize the crossover right away.

Such an interesting book.