Status Updates From La calavera

“But when I sat down and read the story again, I was surprised. It wasn’t the story I remembered. In the year in between, my brain had changed it without telling me. In the Alaska book, Otilla […]. I didn’t remember any of that. My brain changed the ending a lot. It had changed it, more or less, to the ending in the book you are holding. I liked my brain’s new version.”

“I wonder if the skeleton will ever come back,” said the skull.
Otilla cut a piece of pear.
“It won’t,” she said”

Otilla the baddest bitch that you are ☠️💅✨

“When she was done crying, she got up and began moving forwards again.”

“One night, in the middle of the night, while everyone else was asleep, Otilla finally ran away”

Now THAT is a banger first line

Otilla is braver than me. I wish I would take a skull and run from a headless skeleton. The illustrations for this was top notch. Great middle school book I would think. I loved books like this when I was around 12.

Un libro inspirado en una leyenda en Alaska que el autor adaptó a su estilo y a sus recuerdos.
Me hubiera gustado que fuera más largo, me dejó calientito el corazón y el final es encantador.
Amé el personaje de la calavera y la amistad con la que rápidamente se da con Otilla.
Ni hablar de las ilustraciones de este hombre ❤️‍🔥