pickI love it when my sons recommend books to me, and my nine year old insisted that I read Doug TenNapel's Cardboard. Both of my boys are fans of another of TenNapel's graphic novels, Ghostopolis, and this one similarly offered a compelling imagined world. The novel begins with a father who is out of work and can't afford a birthday gift for his son Cam. In desperation, he takes up a strange man on a strange offer: 78 cents for some cardboard. ⬇️
pickThere are only two rules: Don‘t get the Cardboard wet and Don‘t feed the Cardboard after Midnight — wait, that‘s Gremlins. But that should tell you all you need to know about dangers of the Cardboard. +11 for an #ImpulseRead #MerryReaders #WinterGames
Genre:Fiction
Author: Doug TenNaple
Date Started: 10/1/2019
Date Completed: 10/16/2019
How did you choose this book: I've seen it everywhere so I thought, why not?
Write a brief summary of the novel
Cam's father, a carpenter, wants to get a birthday present for Cam. He has been pretty broke so getting a birthday present won't be easy. He then spotted a strange man selling toys. He didn't have anything that could be afforded by him, only cardboard.
pickThis book was probably my favorite book I have read this year by far. The story is about a dad who is really broke and couldn't get a birthday present for his son so he got cardboard and it was magical. The books drawings really captured the story and emotion of the book. So overall 10/10 LETS GO
This kid is still exhausted from a sleepover he went to on Friday. He told us he went to sleep at 3 am!!! Pretty happy it took very little convincing to get him to settle in with me and read. 😍 @WanderingBookaneer is featured in this pic, but I won't tell you where!! 😜
pickGreat book!!! Did I get teary at the end? What? Nooo!!!! 😬 (background still boarded up from the storm...all is as well as it can be here)
And this is the kids #independentbookstoreday haul! Looking forward to perusing Cardboard, by the same author as Ghostopolis, about a gift of a cardboard box that comes to life.
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Cam and his father, a construction worker, take great joy in building Bill, a cardboard man painted to be a boxer. And then Bill comes to life.⠀
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The premise of Cardboard takes off from there, and there's a lot of joy in discovery. Though this is a children's book, it takes on grief, hope, entitlement, imagination, and honor. ⬇️ 4y
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Has anyone else read Cardboard or another of TenNapel's books? What other books about parents and children would you recommend? 4y