Post Gazette: What is it about wardrobes and closets that so fascinate children's authors in the U.K.? Oliver Jeffers' "The Way Back Home" opens with a boy finding an airplane inside his closet. Without hesitation (and apparently without checking the fuel tank), he dons his flight jacket, hat and goggles and takes off. By the time he runs out of gas, he's already in orbit around the moon, and he crashes there only to meet an alien whose spaceship did the same.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
'The Way Back Home' is an imaginative treat
Post Gazette: What is it about wardrobes and closets that so fascinate children's authors in the U.K.? Oliver Jeffers' "The Way Back Home" opens with a boy finding an airplane inside his closet. Without hesitation (and apparently without checking the fuel tank), he dons his flight jacket, hat and goggles and takes off. By the time he runs out of gas, he's already in orbit around the moon, and he crashes there only to meet an alien whose spaceship did the same.
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