![]() ![]() No matter how strange or unbelievable an event, story or person seems to be (a five-legged cat, an imprisoned child-monster, a stuffed miniature zebra), sooner or later there is a logical(ish) explanation. ![]() ![]() However, The Kneebone Boy also suggests that the world is far more normal than we might hope. Along the way, there are mechanical rats, hidden passages, a mighty dragon-slayer, Fluffernutter sandwiches, a deposed Sultan, missing relatives, a local legend and three resourceful, intelligent childrenand all around and through the story, like a wisp of fog, slinks the sense that the world is a stranger, more mysterious place than the grown-ups would have us believe. The Kneebone Boy, by Ellen Potter, lets you in on a secret tooon many secrets, really. He views anything Im reading with great suspicion, as if it were broccoli in book-form, (wholesome, good for you and not all that much fun to consume). No, the problem was that my son had picked it up off my desk and then disappeared with it. Not because I had a hard time reading it: in fact, I found it a pleasantly gripping read. I had to race to finish reading The Kneebone Boy in time to write this review. ![]()
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