![]() ![]() ![]() Just….extraordinary” is what I find myself stammering. I’ve tried to tell a few folks lately what the experience of reading Stitches was like, and I’ve found it hard to describe. David’s wandered to the fourth floor and meets “the little man in the jar,” who later haunts his dreams: The young David is six and has gone with his brother and mother to pick up their father at the hospital where he works. And one wrapped around my favorite theme, as I’ve said so often at the blog that you’re probably tired of reading it: The power of art to transform and heal.īut there are also some truly terrifying moments in this book of survival, including the ones pictured just below. The publisher likes to call it a “silent movie masquerading as a book” - and a tale of redemption, which it most certainly is. In today’s post are some panels from the completed book, his new graphic novel memoir for adults, to be released in early September from W.W. Last year, Caldecott-Medal winner David Small was here for seven questions over breakfast, and he mentioned Stitches as one of his forthcoming titles, sharing this sketch here at that time (June ’08): ![]()
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