The Propeller Man and Other Stories by Gerard Lewis and Lizzie Shannon-Little – #ABookADayInMay – Day 26

A quick post today about a book my friend and her partner wrote – The Propeller Man and Other Stories by Gerard Lewis and Lizzie Shannon-Little, illustrated by Alexandra Ricketts. A bit of a cheat for A Book A Day In May, because it is very short, but I’ve been meaning to read and write about it for ages. It’s a collection of poems in the time-honoured style of Roald Dahl or Hilaire Belloc – i.e. cautionary tales about misbehaving children and the violent ends their misdeeds will fittingly lead to. Whether an untidy bedroom consuming a child or an octopus retaliating to urine in a pool, it’s all pretty macabre but will delight an older child who has a stomach for that sort of thing. And we know that children are often pretty open to the grisly! Each is fittingly illustrated by Ricketts – you can see her work on the cover too: I’m a more sensitive soul, but I still enjoyed it – certainly a quick read, but one I suspect some children will love to revisit. And, who knows, it might even…