Book review: Higher Ground

Higher Ground by Tull Suwannakit, New Frontier Publishing, ISBN 9781922326997

REVIEWED BY MARLEY, 9, WA

The publisher provided a review copy of this book.

Higher Ground is a picture book about a grandma, brother, sister and one rabbit who get stranded on a really tall apartment building in the rooftop garden, because of a huge flood and lots of rain. There’s nowhere to go unless they take a boat. The water is filled to the brim.

Their grandmother teaches them ways to survive with a scarce amount of food. She taught them how to tie knots and how to eat every part of a fish. She teaches them all of the knowledge she has so they can pass it on in the future.

My favourite page is where the illustrations show how they have all grown up over time. You can even see at this point, in their faces, that they have lost hope. 

They end up never giving up and have enough hope that something great will happen. The moral of this book is to never give up and keep on pursuing what you believe in.

My favourite thing about this book is that there is always a cliffhanger to keep it interesting. 

The book itself feels really high quality with an embossed cover and thick pages of illustrations. 

I really enjoyed this book and people that like big cliffhangers and that are into adventure books and like learning new things would enjoy this book too.

Read Alphabet Soup’s interview with Tull Suwannakit, the author of Higher Ground.

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