Alas and Alack and What Was That?
RickErickson
あらすじ
There's something causing a stir among the locals. Is it an innocent and misunderstood force or a bad actor up to no good? Look for clues to discover what or WHO it is and what it's up to. The reader finds themself in a mystery alongside a little girl. Clues on each page lead them (the girl and the reader) to a final discovery of a mischievous crow. In their meeting they come to know that fickle, fun and imaginative forces of the wind that are alive and well in both of them is an irresistible and natural part of being who and what they are. The bouncy, tangled refrains flip the old "Alas and Alack" middle English narrative into a tragicomedy in something akin to colloquialisms right out of a Fargo fatalist ethos. If the reader is confused about whether the character frolicking just outside the illustrations' frames is no good or simply not bad, then an tinglings of "irony" have begun in the young reader.

