Sean the Stick

What to call Sean the Stick? Is it an existential children's tale? A weird book for all ages? Is it a story about a person who becomes best friends with a stick? Is it a nature love story? Nature versus nurture? This beautiful hardcover book combines a Kevin Sampsell short story told in simple (yet emotionally vast) short sentences with colorful drawings by Em Jon-Michael Frank, an artist whose celebrated works of vulnerability, humor, and empathy have garnered their work an enthusiastic and growing audience over the years.