Hicotea: A Nightlights Story

Description

In this mesmerising follow-up to Nightlights, Lorena Alvarez explores our relationship with nature and animals. On a school field trip to the river, Sandy wanders away from her classmates and discovers an empty turtle shell. Peeking through the dark hole, she suddenly finds herself within a magical new dimension. Filled with sculptures, paintings and books, the turtle's shell is a museum of the natural world. But one painting is incomplete, and the turtle needs Sandy's help to finish it...

Lorena Alvarez was born and raised in Bogota, and studied Graphic Design and Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has illustrated for Puffin Books, Faber & Faber, Usborne Books, Parragon, Boom! Studios, Nickelodeon and Disney. Since 2008, she has been part of "La Procesion Puppet Club", an experimental puppetry group of illustrators and visual artists.

Alvarez's artwork is luminous and stunning, full of detail, evocative and engaging. Just as unsettling and delightful as its predecessor, Lorena Alvarez's new instalment in the Nightlights series is as gorgeous as it is imaginative. * Children's Books Ireland Recommended Reads 2019-20 * Ferociously odd and utterly transporting graphic novel. * TLS, Writing about climate change for children * Evocative artwork * Bekkabergamont on Instagram * This weird, delightful and colourful follow-up to Alvarez's scary but wondrous Nightlights graphic novel can be read alone or as a sequel. * The Metro *