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The color palette is clear and bright, and the panels’ irregular outlines enliven their carefully composed, easily legible interiors.

With comic enthusiasm, Emily helps introduce Reggie to new adventures and new friends-sweet-faced beasts including tigers and owls, and a golden glowing sea serpent (characters introduced in Vandorn’s Crabapple Trouble also make cameo appearances). On his own for the summer while caring for his cousins’ house, he reluctantly enters a conversation with Emily, a gregarious rabbit-like creature who is also a good listener.

Cyclops Reggie, a small, shape-shifting monster (imagine an UglyDoll as interpreted by Miyazaki) is taking some time after a frightening adventure with his friend Clovis leaves him feeling isolated and unsettled (“Surprises aren’t fun all the time”).