No! I Won't Go to School [Hardcover]

A childs imagination inflates school fears inMexico-based author N??ezs first English-language book...In sophisticated pen-and-ink and photographic collages,Brazilian illustrator Brasil renders the teacher as a hydra and the school busas a horned monster, and sharp-featured students wear expressions ofwide-mouthed terror...N??ez iseffective at conveying the sense of doom that ruminating on the unknown canbring, while Brasils art blends creaturely details and photographic accents tostylized effect.A boy walks readers through hisconcerns about his first day of school: Now I'm in the belly / of thismonstrous bus. / The driver's a zombie / who won't talk to us. Thestory follows the expected school-isn't-so-bad path, and the rhymes(translated from the Spanish) drop the odd beat, but elevating theaffair is the surrealism-tinged art reflecting the kid's imagination.