The Skull

The Skull is a great story that can be interpreted in different ways. It leaves enough to the imagination that kids can make it their own story, and give their own reasoning to the characters and their past. It's an engaging page turner with simple prose and great for all ages to enjoy. The illustrations are so clean, creative and full of texture (he put graphite shavings on a scanner and inverted the colour to make the snow??). I recommend The Skull to anyone looking for a quick, spooky, and heartwarming story.

Personal: Jon Klassen had an artist talk and book signing, and I got a free copy of The Skull (which is great because I already had it on my tbr)! I really enjoyed hearing about his artistic process, his insight into illustrating and writing books, and his philosophy on art. I learned that he also worked on coraline, that's so cool!! His talk was very inspiring and I learned a lot from him as an artist :)