Quietly Sure like the Keeper of Great Secret – Jo Dery

This book was a present from Miss Snapdragon and Tall Boy Tamegoshi, when they visited San Francsico over the summer. They found it at a store called Little Otsu a ‘small press shop’. On the site they say about this book “Things start off with the dispersal of some vicious seeds and wind their way through six stories of new discoveries, things gained and lost, new partnerships, and lessons learned.” It is mostly pictures and speech bubble text. The book, and much of their stock, sits in the realm of that very modern, awkward, flat and whimsical graphics style. The book itself was mostly intriguing and felt just outside the realm of understanding for me, which can be lovely. Little Otsu has the kind of website and products that make me want to turn into points of light and creep in between the leaves of web page and snuggle up for a strange, stylish, otherworldy nap.