My favorite illustration is from the part of the story when Leo has just found his first real friend. the book emphasizes a certain sweetness with Barnett's stripped down prose and Christian Robinson's adorable illustrations.

I’ve seen other reviewers recommending the book for ages 4-6, but I think kids much older than that will love it. And in Jane, they create a brilliant heroine whose powers lie within her wit, her open mind, and her freedom of play. Barnett and Robinson celebrate play, as Jane breaks gender roles and includes Leo among her imaginary friends.He openly welcomed the new family into his home, but, the family was scared and desperate and a little bit hateful of their housemate, so Leo hits the road as a roaming ghost.

Christian Robinson’s beautiful illustrations are simple and stylish; the cool blue palette perfectly captures Leo’s quiet world and the city scenes evoke classic New Yorker-style illustrations.A lifeless story about the ghost of a child who gets evicted from his house and then confused for an imaginary friend. Despite Leo’s ghost status there is nothing spooky about this moving story of friendship, acceptance, and belonging. But luckily, there's Jane, our plucky heroine, who can see Leo when others can't and believes him to be her imaginary friend. That is how he meets Jane, a kid with a tremendous imagination and an open position for a worthy knight.

Leo: A Ghost Story is a 2015 children's book written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Christian Robinson. Some bookmakers have achieved that goal well with depth and humor, but Leo: A Ghost Story doesn't make the cut.

If the ultimate focus is the friendship between Leo and Jane and how their life situations fit together, she deserved more pagetime. From the brilliant author of Extra Yarn and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole comes this sweet story of a friendship that goes beyond the land of the living.

Morbidly amused, but also genuinely curious, I turned to Mac and asked, “If we did all die in a fiery crash tonight, how many books do you have finished that would still be published posthumously? If Leo: A Ghost Story had been around when I was a kid, it would have been one of my favorite books. Sometimes the illustrations for this book were so damn adorable, I pulled the same smiley face the main character was pulling. It’s a warm and wise story about acceptance trumping difference—including that between life and death.What I love about this is Leo gave up his home and everything he loved so that this family would be comfortable in his own house. This tender, wistful tale of friendship, innocence, and belief is an absolute joy—simply and movingly told, with quirky illustrations that tug at the heartstrings even as they raise a smile. Leo, the ghost whom most people can't see, leaves his home when the new inhabitants make him feel unwanted. Jane and Leo have lots of fun together but being a ghost is not the same as being imaginary; and Leo’s ghostly nature might just save the day! Although there is a ghost it is not scary at all, unless you have already made your tiny tot terrified of the mere word, in which case you are shit parent.