The Sigh
 Written and Illustrated by Marjane Satrapi
Retail Price: $10.95 US
Page Count: 56 pages
E – Everyone (All Ages)
Available now in comic book shops and wherever books are sold.

Synopsis:

Rose is one of three daughters of a rich merchant who always brings gifts for his girls from the market. One day Rose asks for the seed of a blue bean, but he fails to find one for her. She lets out a sigh in resignation, and her sigh attracts the Sigh, a mysterious being that brings the seed she desired to the merchant. But every debt has to be paid, and every gift has a price, and the Sigh returns a year later to take the merchant’s daughter to a secret and distant palace.

My Thoughts:

I thought this book was very imaginative and very well written. I enjoyed the pictures that accompanied the story even though I like to use my imagination to envision how the characters and the settings look normally. I decided to read this book first before deciding if I would read it to my kids, I knew it was a fairy-tale which is normally meant for children but I still wanted to be sure of the content. Even though this book is recommended for all ages I decided against reading it to my children because I wasn’t 100% comfortable with some of the scenes in the story. I didn’t think they were old enough to understand it fully, they are ages 7 and 9 or maybe I just wasn’t comfortable reading it to them, either way I would recommend this book to tweens/teens, and young adults. Overall I think it was a great concept and story, my only question I walked away with after I finished reading was what about her family? Without giving too much of the plot away, her family was discussed in the beginning but by mid book going forward to the end they weren’t mentioned again.

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