265 pages
Published 2023
Read from April 21 to April 22
Rating: 4 out of 5
This middle-grade graphic novel is indisputably lovely. O’Neill’s art style is warm, soft, and comforting, welcoming us into the cozy community and magical world of the story. O’Neill tells much of the story through their art, laying out wordless pages with confidence.
I’m not the target audience for this book, of course, so it doesn’t matter much that I found the story itself a touch thin. However slight it might seem, The Moth Keeper is genuine and moving. More stories (especially stories for younger readers) should be about the importance of community, about loneliness and interconnection, about how everything and everyone is part of everything and everyone else. That, with the beauty of the art, is enough to satisfy me.
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