Henrik Drescher also does a great job at making McFig’s and McFly’s cottages look more surreal and rickety as the two men started adding more and more junk on top of their houses during their competition. Henrik Drescher makes McFig sport glasses and have a curly mustache and blonde hair while he makes McFly look a little more handsome than McFig by him sporting a huge eyeball that is mainly seen from the side of his face (which the reader only sees the side of McFly and we never see McFly from the front of his face).
Henrik Drescher’s illustrations are creative and childish at the same time, which is in the similar style of Gruesome Guide to World Monsters. “McFig and McFly” is a wonderful tale about how being too competitive can produce consequences for oneself, but children might be a little disturbed by the scene where a character dies. In this tale, two neighbors named McFig and McFly started competing with each other to see who has the better house. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.“McFig and McFly” is illustrator Henrik Drescher’s latest children’s book and it is certainly one of his most dramatic books ever created since Simon's Book. For readers who enjoy the offbeat, this story is sure to generate a laugh.- Barbara Elleman, Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MAĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The story's focus, of course, is the ever-growing construction: a middle-of-the-book spread is particularly eye-catching as it opens out in four directions, giving readers a chance to ferret out the oddities of the two architectural structures. Drescher achieves balance to this outlandish story by swathing his pages in creamy aqua and rosy hues, and using his recognizable rough-line drawings to delineate the characters and buildings. Anton and Rosie dismantle the towering appendages, reconfigure the houses into one cozy home, marry, and live happily ever after, giving credence to the subtitle. Then one day, while finishing his fish-bone-and-garbage-can weather vane, McFig slips to his death ("splat!") McFly, now having lost all motivation, soon dies of boredom. This does not deter their fathers, however, who continue their unending rivalry. Meanwhile, Rosie and Anton, frustrated with their fathers' silly, myopic ambitions, fall in love.
Through the years, the houses are topped off ever more peculiarly-with additions such as a bungee-jumping platform (McFly) and a rooftop tennis court (McFig). What begins as a friendship between the next-door neighbors quickly escalates into a building frenzy as each man attempts to outdo the other. Grade 2–4-The perils of competition are at the heart of this quirky tale, which introduces Mr.
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