Sirens is the fifth book in the Tik & Tok series of adventures featuring a boy called Tik, and his friend, a dog named Tok. It references the ancient Greek myth of the song of the Sirens alongside allusions to the folktale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and confronts the themes of surveillance, propaganda, advertising, and the contemporary problem of children’s addiction to screens and sugar. It is a picture book, in that it features written text accompanied by illustrations, but i(...)