The Tunnel

Picture book with Red Riding Hood themes. The girl in the story must overcome her fears to rescue her brother who has climbed into a dangerous fantasy world. Hidden characters and animals in illustrations are fantastic,

I like Browne's Gorilla books best. And his books about Willy, the boy who is drawn as an ape, are terrific for the right readers. His original and fractured fairy tales, though... these are challenging. Brilliant, gorgeous, but challenging. I watched a read aloud of this on youtube; I wish I could read a print copy so that I could get a richer experience and more complete understanding. It's gotta be very symbolic, maybe Jungian?

Once upon a time there were a brother and a sister who were so completely different and argued all the time. The brother goes down a mysterious tunnel, but the sister is too afraid to -- until she becomes worried about her brother and so braves the tunnel and the horrible wood beyond. When she finds him he has been turned to stone, but she hugs and cries over him, turning him back into human form and they escape back home -- both changed by the experience. Red Riding Hood visual sub-theme throughout.

This book is about two siblings who are very opposite of one another and bicker back and forth a lot. One day their mom got tired of hearing them fight and told them to leave the house and be back by dinner. The children went off and they found a tunnel. The brother went in and the sister chased after him. The sister found him as stone and hugged him. Finally he turned into himself again and they went home. It is a little bit of an odd book but it teaches children that no matter how much they fight with their siblings, they will still always love them.

This is a story about a brother and sister who argue all the time. One day their mother send them out together and the brother decides to crawl into a tunnel and his sister is forced to crawl in behind him after he does not come out for a while. While in the tunnel it is up to the sister to save her brother.

Etrange et angoissant ce livre pour enfant. Un frère et une sœur se chamaillent. Arrivés dans un étrange monde parallèle, c’est grâce à leur union qu’ils échapperont au pire. Je n’ai pas compris le message du livre et le texte et les dessins m’ont mise mal à l’aise. Une lecture que je ne recommanderais certainement pas, sous peine de faire faire des cauchemars à nos chers bambins.

Rosa y su hermano se pelean todo el tiempo. A ella le gusta leer libros y le tiene miedo a la oscuridad, y a él le gusta estar en la calle jugando al fútbol y asustar a su hermana. Simplemente son muy diferentes para poder llevarse bien. Lo que necesitan para volverse amigos es una aventura juntos. Y eso es exactamente lo que encuentran en el túnel.
De nuevo, un conflicto familiar es el inicio del viaje.