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Mouse Bird Snake Wolf

par David Almond

Autres auteurs: Dave McKean (Illustrateur)

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Using sticks, leaves, and clay, Little Ben makes a mouse, Sue, a bird, and Harry, a snake, but when they create a terrifying wolf that turns on them, Little Ben must summon the courage to save them.
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The images and writing are equal portions of the story telling here as 3 young inhabitants fill in lacunae left by lazy gods napping and feasting above them. The mouse, bird, and snake are interesting but the wolf takes a different turn. An ambiguous story to present to young or old readers. ( )
  quondame | Mar 10, 2022 |
Almond and McKean seem to always tackle the big picture ideas - death, growing up, family - very successfully, and this book once again falls in suite. This time around their theme is creation and its limits and they play wonderfully with these tropes by giving us the contrast of lazy gods and unruly creations. Their cake and tea eating gods are extremely laughable, but they touch on some poignant literary/philosophical themes by suggesting that the gods don't take care of their creation anymore (similar to Preacher and Lucifer comic series). It is up to three children to create a mousy thing, a chirpy thing, and a slithery thing to fill in some of the gaps. But Almond and McKean go back on this hint that humans should take up the reigns when we witness the brutality of the created wolf - who becomes a symbol of humanity correupting the world through their creations and of the inevitable darkness that lies within everyone. ( )
  JaimieRiella | Feb 25, 2021 |
Part picture-book, part graphic novel, this lovely little volume from British author/illustrator team David Almond and Dave McKean imagines a world whose creation is incomplete. A lazy pantheon of gods lounges about on the clouds, admiring what they have created, while empty places exist in the world down below. Three children - Harry, Sue and Ben - take a hand at completing their world, each of them creating a new creature: Ben a mouse, Sue a bird, and Harry a snake. Their last creation however - a wolf - proves rather problematic, as he swallows Harry and Sue whole, leaving it to Ben to un-create him. Things are not so simple however, and the narrative concludes with a hint that the wolf won't stay un-created for long...

Almond and McKean have teamed up on other titles - The Savage, Slog's Dad - but Mouse Bird Snake Wolf is the first of their joint projects I have picked up. I am so glad I did, as I found it quite a thought-provoking little book. The writing is spare but powerful, the artwork intense and compelling, the final product an interesting meditation on the nature of creation. Is it complete? (obviously not in this world). Do we (human beings) have a role to play, in completing it? What is creation? And can things be unmade, once they are made? What is the relationship between the divine and the human? Between the creator and the created? Does the creator become his creation? These are all questions raised by the story here, remaining open-ended, as they should. The only thing here I didn't like, was the use of the figure of the wolf, as these creatures are so often (unjustly) vilified in story, standing in for our fears about the natural world. Of course, one could argue that since the wolf comes from a human figure in the story, its negative connotations are brought to life by humanity, rather than by any innate wolfiness, but again, the narrative here complicates ideas of creator/creation. Recommended to readers looking for more philosophical children's books. ( )
  AbigailAdams26 | Jun 25, 2019 |
In another world not so different from our own, three children proceed to complete the work of the gods while those gods lie idle. The creatures they create are progressively more terrifying, the final one gobbling up two of the three children. That remaining child reaches into the depths of himself to unmake that last terrifying beast and frees his friends. The inattentive gods end the book in rumination of these new creations.

Almond's work here is thought provoking and unique. The scene is set for great wonder and curiosity on the part of the reader. The graphic novel style draws the reader in and tells a wonderful story on it's own. For a story that is so bizarre, you can really connect with the characters and plot. ( )
  maryganderson | Sep 16, 2018 |
Wonderful, mysterious, haunting illustrations from the great Dave McKean accompany this enchanting and slightly dark tale of gods and children.
  aratiel | Sep 5, 2018 |
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