The True Tale of The Monster Billy Dean telt by hisself

The True Tale of The Monster Billy Dean telt by hisself by David Almond 256 Pages

This is the story of Billy Dean, as he says, telt by hisself.  Billy was born the day the bombs fell and was kept secret from what remained of the world.  The only people Billy has ever seen is his mother and father.  His father doesn’t live with them, but shows up some nights, telling Billy stories about God and the stars.  One day, his father stops coming and his mother takes him out to see the rest of the world.  With a few friends, Billy tries to make sense of the broken world the bombs left, and to begin to piece together the story of his birth.  Because people believe that he is the Aynjel Child that can save them all. 

I didn’t like the book very much.  I found the phonetic spelling of words that Billy uses to be distracting.  It makes sense that Billy, being mostly uneducated, would spell this way, but it made the book really hard to read.  I wouldn’t personally recommend this book, although I have liked a lot of the books this author has written.