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Feather and Bone by Lazlo Strangolov (view source)
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|reviewer= Stefan Bachmann
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= A glance at ''Feather and Bone's''s striking illustrations, appealing front, and intriguing back may easily tempt you to pick it up. That is perfectly understandable. The marketing department did a thorough job here, and the book honestly does seem to have a lot of promise: it could have been a chilling, thrilling coming-of-age story. The sad truth is that it is tedious, forced and just generally unpleasant. One to leave where it lies.
|rating=2
|buy= No
|borrow= Maybe
|pages=272
|publisher= Walker Books
[[The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket]] and [[Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley]] are very similar to this book in terms of slick presentation and topnotch artwork. However, any likenesses end there: content-wise they are far superior, the former sly and witty, the latter utterly chilling, both brimming with menace and foreboding. If you would like a children's book with some proper surreal atmosphere and emotional depth to boot, you might also want to check out [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne]].
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