Hang Glider and Mud Mask
Author(s): Brian McMullen
Two strange and lovable characters inhabit this revolutionary picture book - it has two front covers and two spines! - that you can start reading from either end. One lives high in the sky. The other lives deep underground. "Hang Glider and Mud Mask" is the magnificent story of two unlikely friends who fly down and climb up to meet each other half way-on the surface of the earth, and in the center of the book! Starting on one side of the book, follow Mud Mask as she leaps, climbs, and escalators her way toward the sunlight. Or, turn the book over and around, and follow Hang Glider as he glides and twists toward the ground. "Hang Glider and Mud Mask" is an unforgettable and unique book that shows how two very different people can take their own path to the same place.
Product Information
"This is awesome."-Daniel Handler "Beautiful."-Daniel Clowes "Is it two stories in one? Or one story that doesn't end? McMullen (editor of the McMullens imprint) and artist Jagel, in their first work for children, have created a wholly original Mobius strip of a book with two front covers (each opens at left) whose stories meet in the middle, finding their resolutions with the opposing cover. In the Mud Mask story line... climbs up via stairs, ladder, and more to catch "the flying legs" that can be seen peeking out from a triangular yellow hang glider on the opposite cover; the second story follows a boy's downward flight into the arms of the girl. With imagery and palette as unusual as the format, it's an odd--and oddly successful--journey."-"Publishers Weekly" (Starred Review)
General Fields
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- : McSweeney's Publishing
- : McSweeney's Publishing
- : 0.283
- : 01 October 2012
- : United States
- : 01 November 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 32
- : Hardback
- : Brian McMullen
