Showing posts with label trainstop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trainstop. Show all posts

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