A review by nicktomjoe
The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers

4.0

A charming but slightly disturbing addition to Jeffers’ “Boy” series: quirky intertextuality, lovely illustrations (very good use of dark tones for a night sky) but the boy is curiously disconnected from the alien on the moon… So there is lots to talk about, lots - even on the last page - to make you stop and think. What is friendship really? How do chance encounters change you? At odds with Kitamura’s UFO Diary or even Litchfield’s Lights on Cotton Rock, this is a great Jeffers story, but ambiguous.