![]() ![]() McFly’s untimely death is met with a cartoonish “SPLAT!” which rattled my nearly-three-year-old, but she recovered quickly at the lovely and very happy ending. The drawings are riotous - I’m pretty sure McFly is a Cyclops - and my kids loved poring over the details of the endless home improvements which include a bungee-jumping platform, roof-top tennis court, glass escalator, elevator, Corinthian columns, gabled dormers, and a very unfortunate fish-bone-and-garbage-can weather vane. But when McFig also builds a tall tower with his leftover lumber - making his house just a teensy bit bigger and better - so starts a competition that will consume, and eventually end, their lives. So marvelously in fact, that McFig helps McFly build a cottage exactly like his own. McFig and McFly have quite a bit in common and get along marvelously. This was OK with McFig, as long as they weren’t noisy or smelly. One day, a stranger named McFly and his son, Anton, bought the land next door. Henrik Drescher, an illustrator whose work regularly appears in The New York Times Book Review and other national and international publications, is the author of Pat the Beastie and other children’s books, including McFig and McFly: A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge, and Death (with a Happy Ending) Hubert the Pudge: A Vegetarian Tale and The Strang. F ar away from anywhere big and important, in a little cozy cottage surrounded by fruit trees and berry bushes, lived McFig and his little daughter, Rosie. ![]()
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