Shortlisted for the 2012 Kate Greenaway Medal.
The Judges said: The different illustrative styles expand the text and the book's message; they amplify the emotions, producing a powerful impact on the reader. McKean uses different media so skilfully, and in such an effective and fluid way. The images illuminate and leave the reader full of hope.
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Award-winning author/ illustrator team David Almond and Dave McKean have followed up The Savage with an equally stunning new book told partly as a graphic novel and partly as a story. Full of the kind of mystery David Almond created in his best-selling Skellig, Slog’s Dad tells how, after his father’s death, Slog copes with his acute feelings of loss and how he finds an embodiment of his father in whom he can believe.
Whether the scruffy figure outside the butcher is really his father or not, Slog believes in him. As ever, David Almond’s writing is vivid and Dave McKean’s illustrations bring the story powerfully to life.
Part story, part graphic novel - a tender slice of life and death from the creators of The Savage . Do you believe there's life after death? Slog does.
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Part story, part graphic novel - a tender slice of life and death from the creators of The Savage . Do you believe there's life after death?
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Slog's Dad and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
Slog's Dad features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Featured Books for 7+ readers, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Slog's Dad was written by David Almond and published by Walker Books Ltd
Slog's Dad has 57 pages