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Mickey takes the case
Jess is thirteen and she already has a reputation - as the daughter of the only communist in town
a crackling mystery
God-given power and wiles from a striking new voice in historical fiction
the other to save his friend's soul
Gentleman Jim Shelley Parker-Chan Mickey takes the caseJim's childlike understanding of the world that surrounds him is enhanced by Raymond Briggs's subtle and inventive illustrations. Fantasies are portrayed as organic clouds that move between and overlap outlined panels of his reality, and myopic Jim is drawn smaller and softer than the policemen and bureaucrats interested in impeding his search for adventure. As he begins to infringe more seriously on the law, the city workers and their speech boxes
