A review by ljrinaldi
Burt's Way Home by John Martz
4.0
This book is either about a boy who comes from another world, who lost his parents, and now resides on earth, or he is a boy who has lost his parents, and is from earth. We dont’ really know, and it really isn’t important.
This picture book/graphic novel is told in two voices, that of Burt, and how he came from another time and planet, and desperately wants to get home, and that of his foster mother, who wants only to help him.
Burt keeps making devices with bits of elctornics, to see if he can contact his parents, out in space. His foster mother humors him.
I am touched by this story, because I used to always believe I was an alien on earth. It is, I think, a common feeling, of not fitting in with the other humans. Burt lives in his world, where all he wants to do is to go home.
Since we dont’ know what the truth is, and we realize that we dont’ need to know the truth, we can just accept this story for what it is, on both levels.
A good way to help children who have been thrown into foster care through no fault of their own. And a good story for those who have always felt as though we just have to find our real parents out there in space.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
This picture book/graphic novel is told in two voices, that of Burt, and how he came from another time and planet, and desperately wants to get home, and that of his foster mother, who wants only to help him.
Burt keeps making devices with bits of elctornics, to see if he can contact his parents, out in space. His foster mother humors him.
I am touched by this story, because I used to always believe I was an alien on earth. It is, I think, a common feeling, of not fitting in with the other humans. Burt lives in his world, where all he wants to do is to go home.
Since we dont’ know what the truth is, and we realize that we dont’ need to know the truth, we can just accept this story for what it is, on both levels.
A good way to help children who have been thrown into foster care through no fault of their own. And a good story for those who have always felt as though we just have to find our real parents out there in space.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.