The Holidays
By (Author) Blexbolex
Gecko Press
Gecko Press
1st March 2018
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
Hardback
128
Width 155mm, Height 215mm
The summer holidays were here. I had the garden, the fields, the lake and the sunall to myself! And then Grandfather brought something home that tipped everything out of balance ...
"A surreal, challenging, engaging beauty of a book." -- Childrens Books Ireland
"Each beautifully textured and detailed picture cleverly reflects the little girls 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."
-- BrainpickingsBlexbolex 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 Angoulme, France. He is renowned throughout the world and has been nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize.