 This small format story is about a child who walks home from school along the same road every day. It builds over seven sequences. The first contains three images: school, path, and home. The next builds to school, street, path, forest, and home. New words and images are added: a blue witch, a pipe-smoking stranger, foxlike bandits, a hot air balloon, a kidnapped queen, and more, until the child’s world has become enormous. Layer upon layer of bewitching silkscreen tableaux grow in strangeness in this allegory of life’s complexity. mjw |
| Title: Ballad Author: Blexbolex Illustrator: Blexbolex Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books Copyright: 2013 Original language: French Translator: Claudia Z. Bedrick Original title: Romance Original publisher: Albin Michel Jeunesse Original copyright: 2013 ISBN: 978-1-59270-137-7 Hardcover pages: 280 Age range: 8 up Genre: Picture book Author’s residence: France Awards: 2013 New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award Subjects: Europe, Imagination, Schools, Western Europe |
Ballad
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