Review: A magical experience
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2012
This Kindle ebook tells the strangest little story which is definitely not the normal one of a visit to the circus. The circus itself isn't a normal one, either. And I suspect that the little boy in the story isn't your average little boy, although he sounds as if he is. This is because he seems to see things in the spaces between the ordinary things that happen and leaves us wondering what exactly he has seen.The town where the circus arrives is also not the one most of us are used to. Or is it? So much of what is in the air in a town consists of myth and fairy story and the quirks and eccentricities of its people. In a way every town is a story, and the people who live there its characters. When we view them with magical eyes we see things that can't be seen in a simple list of names and addresses.The illustrations in the ebook are really beautiful and do more than merely add to the magic of the story. They are as much a part of it as the words are. This story provides the kind of experience that can haunt a life for ever afterwards. I know, because I recognise in it what I saw myself in maybe ten such books I read in childhood. It is strange to think that, in a way, they have become a part of me.Kindle ebooks are carrying on an old tradition through new technology. Read this ebook alone or with your children. You will find it magical.