Published: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Illustrator: Heidi McKinnon
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
★ ★ ★ ★ – 4 Stars
They cant run, swim, fly or jump… so how will these two little rocks get to the shop? There’s so much to love about this book. Not only are the two characters simply called Rock, but they are optimistic, hilarious, and practical.
McKinnon uses dialogue for the entire story but instead of using quotations and padding it out, she uses differentiating colours to show who is speaking. Pink rock and green rock work out the issues they have in trying to get to the shop and seeing their deliberations is an absolute delight. Pink rock is definitely the more optimistic, while green is the practical one of the two, but even so they manage to climb and float and fly their way to the shop.
There are puns and the simple humour is divine. McKinnon uses a washed out tone for the backgrounds but sticks with the green, grey colouring which makes the bright pink and green of the two rocks stand out.
I love the ending of this because it was exactly what I wanted and I had an absolute blast getting there. What is even better though is McKinnon takes it one extra step further and it becomes even more hilarious.
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