The Rabbit’s Magician is a gentle story dealing with a sensitive subject, the loss of a loved one – person or animal.
Published in September, 2022.
https://fordstreetpublishing.com/book/the-rabbits-magician/
How can a book be heartbreaking, joyful and uplifting all at the same time? It’s done with the mastery of its creators. Shae Millward and Andy Fackrell’s The Rabbit’s Magician is a picture book that has come as a gift; a source of wonder, and hope, and absolute enlightenment, that brings comfort and warmth at a time when loss seems overwhelming. The energy illuminating from this book has no bounds; the ‘trickery’ of the symbolic moon, the Law of Conservation of Energy where physical forms change but the same energy remains, the awe of the magic itself, and the phenomenal synergy between the evocative text and enchanting illustrations.
The consistency throughout the book of the deep crimson and purplish hues and etched-like paint set behind illuminating whites of the rabbit and the moon pair harmoniously with the emotive text. Andy Fackrell describes his colour palette, “Colour helped convey the emotional journey; the red earth implied rawness of emotion, the Prussian blue night reflected loneliness, but the time Alby and Ziggy spent together was brought to life with exuberant complimentary hues.” Both the illustrations and the words surprise, delight and render hearts with this story of Ziggy the rabbit and his beloved companion, The Amazing Albertino. JUST KIDS LIT, September 16, 2022
