Gone
By (Author) Michel Streich
Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
3rd June 2025
Australia
Children
Fiction
Hardback
32
Width 215mm, Height 255mm
300g
An honest and beautiful guide for curious children about life's biggest mystery.
My fluttering, chirping, hopping bird was gone.
Its body was still there, a silent, feathery shape, but all life had left it.
Long or short, every life on earth comes to an end some day.
But what happens when we die
Michel Streich started his artistic career in his native Germany. He worked as a freelance illustrator in London for several years, finally basing himself in Australia in 2000. Michel works mainly as an editorial and book illustrator. Hundreds of his drawings have featured in numerous German school books, and his work has been published in newspapers and magazines such as The Times, The Financial Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Financial Review, Australian Gourmet Traveller, GQ Magazine, The Big Issue and many others. Michel lives in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.