Ciruelo: Each book features a young adult facing a crisis and helped through this time by a supernatural being.

nsblumenfeld: One's a novel, the other a comic, but both are excellent and devastating stories of grief.

keremix: I don't wanna give spoilers, but for me it was hard to miss the things these two books have in common.

elenchus: A Monster Calls and Jellaby share a similar premise, as well as thematic concerns with isolation and childhood depression. They're each illustrated, but the words are as important as the images (and vice versa), and though they treat of sobering concerns, are ultimately good-hearted and optimistic.… (meer)

elenchus: Ness's A Monster Calls and Nunes's Dodo share a broadly similar premise, and a serious consideration of the world as seen by hurt children. Dodo is perhaps suitable for younger readers, but both books are not cartoon-y nor simplistic. The aesthetics styles are distinct, too, though the use of dreamscapes and analogues are similar.… (meer)