The text is handwritten in a childish yet legible scrawl, with liberal use of uppercase letters. Some pages symbolize mood with a single color, boy and tree both murky brown with irritation or red with frustration. Jeffers’ light-handed illustrations are hilariously droll. He flings up a bucket of paint, the milkman, real trucks, a full-size lighthouse and “a curious whale, in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Everything sticks. Everything but the kitchen sink gets tossed up a tree to help Floyd retrieve his kite-oops, there goes the kitchen sink too!įloyd has one approach, and one approach only, to kite recovery: Throw something up to knock the kite down.
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