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kim_j_dare 's review for:
The Memory Bank
by Carolyn Coman
Lemony Snickett and Roald Dahl collide with Brian Selznick in this unusual story of a sister's refusal to forget about the baby sister her parents abandon. Carolyn Coman's text is full of her signature sly humor, and Rob Shepperson's illustrations (a combination of finished pictures and unfinalized sketch art in the ARC) are beautifully expressive, but sadly, I think the target audience is going to be lost. What worked so well in Hugo Cabret with the marriage of text and graphics just doesn't flow here. An ambitious attempt, and enjoyable on several levels, but not quite a win for the audience for whom it's intended.