DODO
by Felipe Nunes
On This Page
Description
"Six-year-old Laila doesn't understand why she's pulled out of school and away from the rest of her friends following her parents' separation. Now, she spends most of her time observing the park next to her house. When Laila spots a mysterious bird, a dodo named Ralph, the two form an unlikely friendship until Ralph starts to cause trouble and Laila finds the chaos around her growing. While cleaning up Ralph's messes, Laila begins to understand the complexity of friendship, love, loss, and show more how to stand on her own." -- Back cover. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Recommendations
elenchus Ness's A Monster Calls and Nunes's Dodo share a broadly similar premise, and a serious consideration of the world as seen by hurt children. Dodo is perhaps suitable for younger readers, but both books are not cartoon-y nor simplistic. The aesthetics styles are distinct, too, though the use of dreamscapes and analogues are similar.
Member Reviews
Picked up on sight from the local library for W, he read first without my checking it. W pronounced it "weird: not bad weird, just weird". He then showed me various scenes, specifically panels in which the Dodo was destructive, and the dream sequence (though he didn't identify it as such).
Read myself later: a 6-year-old girl copes with her parents' separation, and subsequent changes in friends and family life, and the bird visits. I especially appreciate the ambiguity as to whether depicted events occurred literally, or stand in for the girl's emotional reality.
Thematic parallels to A Monster Calls, though the underlying story differs.
Read myself later: a 6-year-old girl copes with her parents' separation, and subsequent changes in friends and family life, and the bird visits. I especially appreciate the ambiguity as to whether depicted events occurred literally, or stand in for the girl's emotional reality.
Thematic parallels to A Monster Calls, though the underlying story differs.
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
7 Works 47 Members
Classifications
- Genre
- Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
- LCC
- PZ7.7 .N86 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 24
- Popularity
- 1,110,875
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.25)
- Languages
- English, Portuguese (Portugal)
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
