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40 pp.
| Gecko |
September, 2018 |
TradeISBN 978-1-776571-88-8$17.99
(3)
K-3
Translated by Sally-Ann Spencer.
A woman named Elise is too fearful to leave her house. After a paper airplane flies through her window, a boy comes looking for it and invites himself in for a friendly visit. The story's originality (text translated from the German) extends to its photographed art, which features cut-out characters set against handmade backdrops; as the intergenerational friendship blossoms, so does the book's color scheme.