Ways that the characters were dying in this book.
Morbid myself when I say this, but I really enjoyed seeing all the different This book is focused on different ways a child dies and I may sound a bit Edward Gorey had done an excellent jobĪt providing a dark and horrific atmosphere for this book as the majority of Used as a way to introduce the alphabet to children, just like how “Halloween ABC” introduced theĪlphabet to children in a morbid way. I also enjoyed the fact that this book is There are mostly about eight to ten words per page making it easier forĬhildren to get a grasp on the concept of this book. I really enjoyed the simplistic way that Edward Gorey had written this book as Which is a scary concept for young children and is usually not taken likely. Unique and spooky children’s book that actually details how each child dies, This message seems to be aimed more at children than adults.Now, the moment you see the image of a skeleton dressed in aīlack overcoat and top hat carrying a black umbrella and looming over severalĬhildren on the cover of this book, then you will know that this book is no All of these adults are the direct cause of death for the child who happens to be on the page. Granted, the only adult we ever actually see is Death on the cover, but there are implications of adults on at least four of the pages. The emphasis of The Gashlycrumb Tinies is on the children, but that's not to say that there are no adults in the pages. The stark portrayal of the realities of death are a far cry from the sanitized death stories of the 1960s, and go directly against the bibliotherapy tradition, which is much softer and more about instructing a child how to feel about the vaguely-depicted death of a loved one (most often a pet). With his almost grotesque illustrations and his purposeful use of the picture book medium, Gorey was almost definitely playing against the trend of bibliotherapy, or explaining how to deal with death in books. Similarly, all of the children in the book die from means that real children also have risk of dying from, which may prove to be a lesson for any child readers on basic safety. Gorey's illustrations emphasize the reality of death in a way that even children understand. Despite the suffering they are about to go through, the children's faces are more often than not blank or even serene before their death. Gorey's frank depictions of death are often snapshots of the seconds leading up to the deaths.
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