Stranger in the Mirror by Say, Allen

Title: Stranger in the Mirror

Author: Say, Allen

Illustration: Allen Say

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Comments

Not one of Say’s better books. It seems unrealistic. A young boy who skateboards a lot, one day wakes up with the face of an old man. He spends the next few days trying to convince people who he is. Then one morning as he is getting ready to run away, he looks in the mirror and he finds he has grown young again. The illustrations are average, and the text is hard to follow. He has better work to read and share. I just didn’t get this one. Thirty-two pages and I couldn’t follow it.