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K-3
Translated by Belinda Cooper.
In this German import, ten double-page spreads pair surreal images with textual binaries. In "One–Many," mice race toward the promise of free cheese and a waiting cat's open maw; and in "Root–Sprout" floating houses (from the cover) pull against their tethers. Finely detailed yet airy, the graphite illustrations invite exploration, offering something strange and disorienting (if sometimes obscure).
32 pp.
| Enchanted Lion
| May, 2010
|
TradeISBN 978-1-59270-091-2$17.95
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K-3
Translated by Belinda Cooper.
Illustrated by
Aljoscha Blau.
These eleven first-person retellings of tall tales by the legendary eighteenth-century German adventurer are efficient, ebullient, and satisfyingly preposterous (Munchausen rides a seahorse and a cannonball, slingshots himself to a beach, performs music inside a whale's belly, etc.). Blau's surrealistic paintings, several of which recall the work of Salvador Dalí, are strikingly detailed.