![]() Bunting and his own dreadfully spooky imaginary companion. Gravett’s several double-page, full-color illustrations, along with lively margin drawings, sweetly blend the real with the imaginary, giving Amanda and Rudger appealing personality-and deliver chills in the form of Mr. ![]() Harrold offers an appealingly childcentric world with hefty doses of scare and malevolence to explore the possibilities of imaginary beings with feelings of their own. A harrowing hospital scene is satisfyingly gruesome though not disastrous. Rudger’s attempts to connect with a boy too young to enjoy his unexpected appearance and to one of Amanda’s less versatile friends are ill-starred. When Amanda is hit by a car, Rudger is able to take refuge in a library, the one place apart from children’s company where sufficient imagination dwells to keep imaginary companions from fading. There’s the possibility of being forgotten, when age or injury-or death?-causes the bond to weaken. Bunting, an ancient man in Hawaiian-print shirt and shorts who, it turns out, stays alive by devouring children’s imaginary friends. He finds that sharing in Amanda’s rich and adventurous imagination has its rewards but some significant dangers and challenges. ![]() What happens to the imaginary friends we make when we are so little we can’t remember them later on?Īmanda’s friend Rudger simply appears one day in Amanda’s wardrobe and becomes her constant companion-and hers alone. ![]()
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