6/30/2023 0 Comments Angry arthur by hiawyn oram![]() ![]() At the very start of the book the author explains what makes Arthur so angry. This book is - as the title says - about a boy called Arthur, who is angry. The title pulled my interest and the cover image jumped out at me. ![]() When I picked this book up, it was purely out of curiosity. But I feel confident I won’t soon forget this one! ![]() I can’t say I have ever felt so angry that this story feels especially relatable to me. I have to wonder in what kind of mood a child would find themselves upon finishing this book. There is no ‘still hot’ dinner waiting a return from this fantastical expression of anger. Ultimately Arthur is left adrift in space left to deal with the consequences of his anger without remembering what set him off in the first place. The illustrations depict a satisfyingly detailed sublime chaos a personal highlight for me being a moment when objects and pieces of places stretch distorted across the page, as if they’re being sucked into a black hole. ![]() Picked up this book while my girlfriend was digging through her childhood picture books in storage and I was struck by the shockingly bleak ending-one that surely would not fly in many contemporary picture books! In the course of the story Arthur gets so angry and is so intent on anger (despite warnings) that he destroys his house, city, country, planet, and eventually, the entire universe in a flurry of psychic rage. ![]()
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