Cosimo Cat

Surreal? Few pages, but they're wonderfully illustrated. A Picture-Book, but not likely to appeal to those under seven. No context, backstory, or explanation... we're thrown right into a young boy who has freedom of the city, a cat-detector, and plenty of energy. And an old carriage house with hundreds of cats... which is just as promptly dropped from the story.... maybe that and the cat-detector are in the boy's imagination... maybe almost all of it is... you tell me!

Kenneth Oppel has an imagination... witness this, one of his earliest, and [b:Inkling|36671127|Inkling|Kenneth Oppel|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1522180238l/36671127._SX50_.jpg|56022030]. one of his most recent. I will continue to show more read more from him, and will check if this illustrator has done anything else. show less

I liked this one. It started out slow but built into a modest adventure story of a kid's search for a lost cat with just the right hint of magic realism.