It’s a book that young readers and their parents can appreciate and enjoy equally, reading together or independently. Miller’s gauzy b&w illustrations echo a dreamlike narrative that explores the inexplicable landscape of grief and the search for meaning. Following a cataclysmic event, the little queen finds a renewed sense of identity in helping to rebuild her kingdom. And so she begins her adventures, journeying away from her palace and into the world to determine how she should go about going on.
Geddes offers an intriguing world in her novella-a dreamlike. “You just need to find them and coax them out.” It’s a moody, meandering sojourn, and Geddes’s symbolic language underscores the value in a variety of vocations (at one point, the queen meets a “poop encourager” who “always had excelled at motivational speaking”). When her mother and father pass away, the little queen must figure out how to be a little queen. The Little Queen is a magical exploration of self-discovery, vocation, community, and home. “Dreams are always present in their seeming absence,” the dream writer tells a crowd that includes the queen. The girl, “now a little queen,” journeys away from her palace, hoping she might exchange roles with one of the many curious individuals she meets, which include a book sniffer, plant whisperer, and dream writer. Using a structure and tone reminiscent of The Little Prince, Geddes crafts an allegorical fantasy about a child’s search for purpose following the deaths of her parents.
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