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|summary=Dark, foreboding and frightening - or heart-warming and humorous? This is book that could match either description. It all depends on your point of view. This is breathtakingly beautiful, and I suspect one that parents will either love or hate, but no one will feel indifference towards.

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''Rules of Summer'' is not one of those books that is ever likely to earn the blanket recommendation ''One for every child's bookshelf''. This book is not for every child. For some it could be the stuff of nightmares. But for those children who have grown bored with the pedestrian banality of many of the books on the high street, for children with a vivid imagination who are not too easily frightened, this book can be pure magic. It is a story of friendship, of the relationship between brothers, of anger and rivalry, and also of love and redemption, told with minimal text and the beautiful surreal imagery of Tan's paintings.