Dimensions
237 x 257 x 9mm
Illustrated by Matt Ottley.
Award-winning author and illustrator Gary Crew and Matt Ottley team up to create a powerful picture book for older readers about humanity’s never-ending struggle between love and hate, heroism and cowardice.
At the most literal level of the story, a boy demands that his mother buy an amulet at a fair in the town square. The artifact looks like a snake chasing or devouring its own tail in an endless cycle. Alone in his attic room, the boy puts the bracelet on and falls asleep. At this, the snake comes to life in the boy’s dreaming, thus telling its story. But what is real and what is not? Are the boy’s fantastic snake-induced dreams the real events, or the events that we see at the real-life story level, taking place in the town square?
Ages: 12+
