Saturday, May 6, 2017

Trainstop

Brought home from the school library by the Kiddo.

Title: Trainstop
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date: 2008
Writer: Barbara Lehman
Artist: Barbara Lehman

This is a childrens picture book, and might not fit into some definitions of "comic", but it is definitely an example of graphic storytelling, especially given that it is completely wordless.

A girl gets on a train and finds herself in a strange country where she is a giant, and the people there are in need of some giant-sized help.

This was a lovely and quirky, and wordless story. The illustrations convey the realistic train journey and the subtle-but-fanciful land where the traveling girl finds herself during the train's unexpected stop.

This was a fun bit of storytelling that worked well without dialogue and without any explanation beyond the events depicted in the illustrations.

Rating: 8/10

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