One of my favorite picturebooks from 2017 because of the cinematic illustrations. Plot-wise, this is a British version of Wall-E, featuring Pandora, a young fox living amidst a world of junk that she refashions and remakes into useable and vivacious items. One day, a bird falls from the sky, and Pandora nurses it back to health in a cardboard box. The bird grows stronger, flying to "faraway lands" and bringing back flowery bits and twigs to make a nest in the box, a

There's an incredible paneling spread that nods to Sendak's WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, as the vegetation from the bird's nest in Pandora's cardboard box begins to creep forth as Pandora sleeps, finally breaking the frame and leading readers into the page turn.

Turnbull's visual style is at once Seussical and Escherian, with a painstaking eye for detail in color scheme and shadow play.

Ultimately, this refreshing revisioning of the myth of Pandora's Box posits a tenacious hope for the future of the protagonist's junkyard world, which is a view that bears repeating in the current American political climate.