Jeremy and the Mantis

by Dale Pendell

Fiction. Young Adult. Children's Literature. Illustrated by Jennifer Rain Crosby. A young boy wanders far from his family's cabin, deep into the wilderness, and becomes lost before meeting an enormous mantis. As they find their way back to the cabin, the mantis tells the boy stories.

40 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 2018

About the author

Dale Pendell is the author of the award-winning Pharmako trilogy, a literary history of psychoactive plants.
He reads and distills the literature of pharmacology and neuroscience, of ethnobotany and anthropology, of mythology and political economics as they intersect with the direct experience of human psychoactive use.

He and his wife Laura currently reside in California.

Reviews

[Jeremy Bigalke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not knowing Pendell's other work, this is an excellent and imaginative story. Knowing his work, of course it is. The tension between the mantis and the child is a rare and interesting force within a children's book, and the mythology woven into the language and the illustrations runs as deep as the time one takes to ponder and stare into the pages.