What Little Boys Are Made Of by Robert Neubecker
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Not sure what to make of the book as a gender statement. It's all the typical stuff: adventure and sports.
Neubecker's best work is when he presents the complex pictures inside the boy's imagination, showing a world where the fantasy acts out in detail. The page with the jungle had illustrations that remind me of some of Sendak's scarier ink drawings. I thought the ending was trite, until he added one more page to show the boy imagining again.
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