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The Holidays

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Holidays
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Blexbolex
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 155
ISBN/Barcode 9781776571932
Audience
Preschool (0-5)
Children's (6-12)
Illustrations Colour illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Gecko Press
Imprint Gecko Press
Publication Date 1 March 2018
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

The summer holidays were here. I had the garden, the fields, the lake and the sun-all to myself! And then Grandfather brought something home that tipped everything out of balance ...

Author Biography

Blexbolex is a French comics artist and illustrator living in Berlin. Born Bernard Granger, he trained as a painter, and studied screen printing at the School of Fine Arts in Angouleme, France. He is renowned throughout the world and has been nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize.

Reviews

"A surreal, challenging, engaging beauty of a book." -- Children's Books Ireland "Each beautifully textured and detailed picture cleverly reflects the little girl's changing moods, her flights of imagination and her colourful dreams, allowing children to mentally climb on board with the adventure and work out the mysteries hidden in the story" -- Black Pool Gazetta (UK) "An entirely new, wholly different form of bewitching visual storytelling." -- Brainpickings