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Silly Billy

by Anthony Browne

One Potato Review

Worries, worries, worries – about hats, and clouds, and giant birds carrying you away in the middle of the night, and sleeping over at other people’s houses. All reasonable, but here’s an intrepid solution (apparently derived from Guatemalan legend) that points to the courage we gain from caring about other people’s worries, even if we should need to invent those people first. By the great, if idiosyncratic (and often inscrutable) Anthony Browne who can barely seem to restrain himself from introducing a primate into this narrative, still Grandma’s the wise one here, even if Billy ends up finally ruling his world.