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This “novel” is probably more pictures than text. It’s not, however, a graphic novel in the sense of a sequential telling nor does it follow the model Brian Selznick used so effectively in The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), where art replaced text to further the story.

Ottoline and the yellow cat book