SuitabookStonebird
Mike Revell
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in after the family and bullying episodes. Let the reader decide what they think is happening with the gargoyle rather than settling that uncertainty for them.
- Themes
- Storytelling and the gargoyle: Liam tells stories about a gargoyle that he finds at a rundown church; it seems to act out those stories and protect him. The story makes the boundary between Liam’s imagination and supernatural events uncertain, rather than clearly resolving whether the gargoyle is alive.
- Worth knowing
- Liam’s grandmother snaps and snarls and eats birthday cards; his mother drinks wine and is not coping, while his sister skips school. Liam also faces bullying at school.