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Reviewed by Bruce Arrington for Readers' Favorite
The Land of Reverse by Dave Manousos is a children’s illustrated story about bedtimes and sleeping. Sam, our sleep-deprived boy, tries everything he can imagine and still cannot manage to catch any z’s. After a while, a thought comes to him and he tries to pretend he is sleeping, and that’s where the adventure begins, and eventually ends on a positive, successful note.
The cover of this book will attract a reader. It provides a sense of the book’s purpose as well as enough humor to make it an easy one you’d pick up at a bookstore. The artwork is superb. Filled with color where appropriate, shadows where they make the darker effect. The colors show you when you are in his dream world, and the details placed into each picture are attractive to the eye, drawing the reader in. Dave Manousos’s story is an original fantasy of things typically backward, as you might imagine from the book’s title. Even the page numbers of the book are printed in reverse during his dream times.
Many pictures are presented in a comical way. That said, given the concrete nature of the audience who will read the book (or will be read to), two of the pictures could be disturbing for young children: the one of fish catching a person (wherein one fish has sharp teeth), and the other of frog pieces being eaten by flies. If I was reading this to a young child, I’d stop and take the time to mention that most likely the fish are participating in a catch and release program. However, The Land of Reverse is a wonderfully imagined tale that is certain to delight young readers.
