By Derib & Job
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 978-1-84918-010-0
Like the previous review about Melusine: Love Potions, this books offers a way into comics and cartooning for younger readers that is sadly lacking today. Yakari is a little Native American boy, and along with his mustang, Little Thunder, explores the world around him in the North American landscape. In this particular tale Yakari and Little Thunder, along with Yakari's friend Rainbow, venture out onto an outcrop of land sticking out into a lake only to get cut off by rising flood waters. There they befriend a herd of moose, one of which has been badly injured by a falling tree, and they must help nurse it while at the same time protect all from the nefarious actions of a hungry wolverine trapped on the island with them.
This book is certainly aimed at a younger audience, and if you're an adult you may find it a little simplistic in its take on the natural cycles that sustain life, but as long as you remember the intended readership it's quite forgivable. My advice is that, like Melusine, this is one you get to share with the children in your life, as it's proved a huge hit with mine.
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