The Wanting Monster
A creature appears whenever wanting more takes hold. An Australian writer and illustrator make a counter-myth to acquisition, pitched at children and aimed at adults.
Martine Murray and Anna Read live close to the land they draw, in rural Australia, and made a picture book about the thing that arrives when enough stops being enough. It is pitched at children and aimed squarely at adults, and its argument is that the appetite is a visitor rather than a self, which makes it something a person can decline.
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Maria Popova
author Martine Murray and artist Anna Read, living parallel lives close to nature in rural Australia, offer a mighty new counter-myth in The Wanting Monster (public library) — an almost unbearably wonderful modern fable about who we would be and what this world would be like if we finally arrived, exhausted and relieved, at the still point of enough.
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