#444 of 1001 · October 18, 2021

Come and rediscover your sense of enchantment and delight with @angelamcallisterbooks and Grahame Baker-Smith’s Leon and the Place Between. Leon and his siblings sit in a tent at a traveling carnival, waiting to be amazed by a magic show. After a troupe of jugglers and a pack of mechanical toys, out steps the magician Abdul Kazam, who performs a suite of miracles. The master conjured asks for a member of the audience to step into a mysterious box, and Leon volunteers. Once through the door, he finds himself in the Place Between, an eldritch zone that serves as a nexus where the people, animals, and objects made to disappear by all stage magicians linger until they are recalled to the ordinary world. Leon returns safe and sound, but with his eyes opened to a new dimension of reality. McAllister’s language soars with wonder and excitement, and Baker-Smith’s digital montage illustrations create a fitting air of circus theatricality. #show #magician #box #magic #book #books #childrensbooks #beautifulbook #beautifulbooks #beautifulbookcover #beautifulbookcovers #picturebook #picturebooks #picturebookillustration #picturebookillustrations #picturebookart #childrensbookillustration #childrensliterature #illustration #kidlit #kidsbooks #bookworm #booklover #booklovers #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #instabook #instabooks