Harald Bakken

The Special String is a modern fantasy wordless picture book. This book is great. Mischa Richter (the illustrator) did a great job with the illustrations and making the plot of this book easy to follow without being boring. For example, using the bright color red for the string with a colorless background makes the story easy to follow from one page to the next. The characters in this book, although not personally developed, have great facial expression so we know exactly what they're feeling without reading any text. For example, we know the farmer is struggling to keep crows out of his field because he is frowning and adjusting a scarecrow. The "big idea" of this book is to help others.… (mehr)