The Night Bookmobile
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Audrey Niffenegger, the New York Times bestselling leader of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, has crafted her first graphic novel after the success of her two critically acclaimed “novels-in-pictures.” First serialized as a weekly column in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, The Night Bookmobile tells the tale of a wistful woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing library on wheels that contains every book she has ever read. Seeing her history and most intimate self in this library, she embarks on a search for the bookmobile. But her search turns into an obsession, as she longs to be reunited with her own collection and memories.
The Night Bookmobile is a haunting tale of both transcendence and the passion for books, and features the evocative full-color pen-and-ink work of one of the world’s most beloved storytellers.
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I couldn’t judge this was for children. Not only is there a cuss word in it, but she has to commit suicide (and they say how), to become a librarian for the night bookmobile. Since I work at a library, I’m apalled at the message this sends. We want children to like the library not reflect we’re all a bunch of zombies. This is a terrible book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The controversy of is it adult or child material is unfortunate. The fact is, the production is packaged in all appearances as an simple reading title for children. There would be no problem with this graphic novel had it been packaged for the young adult and up trade. This is an appealing fleeting tale in graphic novel format that appears to aimed at the incorrect audience.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
So just because Audrey Niffenegger wrote it, I’m supposed to like it? Sorry. I haven’t read The Time Traveler’s Wife yet, and now I’m certainly not going to. This book presents itself as a children’s book, which it is absolutely not. Also, the illustrations are horrible. They are just not excellent. They are very, very terrible.
The tale itself is superficial. Whatever point Niffenegger is trying to make here is inconsequential when one has to contemplate how such terrible drawings really made their way into print.
There’s a surprise twist ending, and afterwards, there’s an epilogue about how awesome the leader is because she used to have dreams about this very topic, and isn’t that so very special and incredible?
The one excellent thing about this book is that it only took me ten minutes to read. One star for that.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Loved this dark tale. It was creative and different and fun to look at. Not for children.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The Night Bookmobile is a graphic novel for adults. It’s a odd tale of a young woman who discovers, reasonably by manufacturing accident, a bookmobile that contains everything she’s ever read. The Chicago setting is evocative, and the storytelling is lyrical. Yes, the tale does have a to some extent dismal ending, but it’s not gratuitous.
This is not a children’s book, but it doesn’t pretend to be. The graphic novel genre isn’t exclusively for children. At the American Library Association convention (June 2010) I attended a panel discussion on graphic novels for adults. Ms. Niffenegger was there, and she gave a fantastic presentation on the genesis and evolution of The Night Bookmobile. (Also on the panel was David Tiny, leader of Stitches.)
As Ms. Niffenegger says in the “After Words,” this is a tale about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary take of the seduction of the written word. It’s a book for book lovers, and the well-told tale will place you wishing for more.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5