The Books

Gus and Button

by Saxton Freymann
Illustrated by Joost Elffers

One Potato Review

Mushrooms as surprisingly expressive actors, returning a wayward leaf of spinach – or is that chard? – to something like a magical kingdom of Crudités. Exploring they will go, through terrifying artichokes among other exotica. This is firstly well-executed (what did they use here – epoxy? Pine resin? Cocktail toothpicks?), but there’s also significantly some wisdom in the notion that vegetables can seem so strange to us sometimes, they’d probably seem strange to each other.