I Will Eat You in the End
Written by David Duff and Illustrated by Marianna Coppo
★"This Beckettian two-parter . . . lays out the realities of the life cycle with unstinting matter-of-factness and disarming wit. . . . Flat, digitally finished gouache shapes and deadpan conversation pace the exchange with theatrical precision, giving each beat room to land. . . . This funny, generous, and profound tale delivers hard truths in a way young readers can hold onto." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"[S]urprisingly moving. . . . Frank’s attitude, cavalier as it may be, is also reassuring in putting such big scary concepts into perspective. A multitude of books on dying exist, but few dare to speak of it so honestly with the youngest of readers.
A strange, sweet, sad paean to the cycle of life and every living thing’s place in it." —Kirkus Reviews
"Coppo illustrates Duff’s terse banter with flat cartoon images, but for all the apparent simplicity of language and look, there’s a lot of tongue in cheek emotional, scientific, and philosophical bang for the buck here." —Booklist