Dust Review

Dust Review: 'I died last night.' So begins Colin Thompson's, Dust, a painful and heart rending first person account by an African child who narrates the final hours of his own death and the death of his mother from starvation.


The text is spare and to the point. There is no sentimentality, for Dust is, in essence, a dry description of facts. And the facts are brutal. The child dies a preventable death while the wealthy western world chooses to look away.


In the book's introduction Colin Thompson states, 'In a perfect world this book would not exist, but we do not live in a perfect world.' (excerpt from Dust, by Colin Thompson).


Also in the introduction, Margaret Douglas, the CEO of Save the Children congratulates Colin and the brave illustrators for bringing the plight of children to the public's attention. All royalties from sales of the book go to the Save the Children organization.