In the Half Room
A room where everything exists in halves, drawn spare and slightly uncanny, until something arrives whole and rearranges the arithmetic.
A picture book set in a room where everything exists in halves, until something arrives whole. Ellis works in a spare, slightly uncanny register that reads as a puzzle to children and as something closer to a mood for the adult reading it aloud at the wrong hour of the night.
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Maria Popova
When I can’t sleep, I read children’s books. One night, I discovered In the Half Room (public library) by Carson Ellis in my tsundoku — an impressionistic invitation into a world where only half of everything exists.
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