Blob: The Ugliest Animal in the World

(Hardback)

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Blob the fish is excited. He's just won the ugliest animal in the world contest!

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"An irreverent and insightful modern fable about beauty, ugliness, the paths to acceptance, and how admiration hijacks our sense of self. ... The illustrations by Tallec lend the humorous story a lovely dimension of tenderness. Blob comes alive as a sensitive creature of contradictionsfull of determination yet easily given to dejection, a living fable of ego and insecurity, easy to fault but also easy to love. ... Under Tallecs subtle brush, we see a difficult realization dawn on Blobprivilege is bestowed largely by chance and little of actual substance separates the most fortunate from the least fortunate. There is something charmingly subversive about the very premise, as paradoxical as the idea of trying to fail at failure. There is also something profound in the questions it raises about our civilizational fascination with beauty and its counterpointwhat does it really mean to be ugly..."Brain Pickings An insightful tale about beauty and self worth. The illustrations are incredible with personality and humor oozing from the pages. The Reading Ninja

Author Bio

Joy Sorman was a philosophy professor before she devoting herself to journalism and writing. In 2005, she published her first work, Boys, Boys, Boys, a challenging feminist story about a girl who is a little different. Sorman also works in TV and radio journalism.
The work of Olivier Tallec has been described as "sensitive," "stunning," "breathtaking," and "beautiful." Tallec was born in Brittany, France, in 1970. After graduating from the cole Suprieure d'Art Graphique in Paris, he worked in advertising as a graphic designer, after which he devoted himself to illustration. Since then he has illustrated more than seventy books.
Sarah Klinger is proud to count 'trilobite' as one of her first words. She has always been obsessed with unusual animals and the diversity of the natural world. After studying French and Psychology as an undergraduate, she received her MFA at School of Visual Arts in New York. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she draws, paints, translates, and has set a goal of walking every street on foot (eventually).