"What should a puppet master do when he's old and alone and all his puppets are gone? Silvester decides to make one last puppet--but this one is different. When the old man speaks to him, Puppet speaks back. And then he starts to walk. While Silvester shows Puppet the town, the playground, and other wonders the world holds, Puppet in turn helps Silvester to make a new friend and share his puppet-making skills with the next generation"--
A magical, rittly-rattly tale... A gentler story that avoids whittling into the darker themes of Pinocchio to stay closer in tone to Pixar's Up. But thanks to Almond's idiosyncratic style it has the same creeping sense of a life hanging in the balance that makes Skellig such an electrifying read 26 years on... Lizzy Stewart's drawings are pitch-perfect, giving the story the feeling of having been as lovingly handcrafted as Silvester's green-eyed lad. Lucy Bannerman Children's Book of the Week, The Times