The Forest (Paperback)

Ricardo Bozzi

ISBN 10: 159270218X / ISBN 13: 9781592702183

Published by Enchanted Lion Books, New York, 2018

About this Item

Paperback. Age range 4+ A book about the journey of life, from our wide-eyes of childhood through the tangles and brambles, into our end. A lyrical book about the adventure of life, The Forest is also a magnificent visual work, both painterly and a technical feat of paper engineering. Here, sensory experience and the textures of the material world are rendered through die-cuts, embossing, cutouts, and a single gatefold. A beautifully considered work. A book about the journey of life, from our wide-eyes of childhood through the tangles and brambles, into our end. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Forest (Paperback)
• Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159270218X
• ISBN 13: 9781592702183
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Lopiz, Violeta; Vidali, Valerio
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2018! ★ A book about the journey of life, from our wide-eyes of childhood through the tangles and brambles, into our end.

A lyrical book about the adventure of life, The Forest is also a magnificent visual work, both painterly and a technical feat of paper engineering. In these beautifully considered pages, sensory experience and the textures of the material world are rendered through die-cuts, embossing, cutouts, and two gatefolds.

About the Author

Riccardo Bozzi is a journalist and has worked for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera since 1990. He is the author of The World Belongs to You, illustrated by Olimpia Zagnoli (Templar/Candlewick, 2013) and Cher auteur, illustrated by Giancarlo Ascari and Pia Valentinis (Hélium, 2016).

Violeta Lopiz is a Berlin-based Spanish illustrator. She has illustrated numerous books including The Forest (Enchanted Lion Books, 2018), Amigos do Peito (Bruaa, 2014), and Les poings sur les iles (Editions du Rouergue, 2011), which received the CJ Picture Book Award 2011 in the New Books category. She has participated in exhibitions in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, USA, Japan, Korea, and more. El Cultural, the supplement of El Mundo, considers her one of the top ten names of contemporary Spanish illustration. Her work can be found in bookstores, streets, fairs, newspapers, and the thousands of notebooks that she leaves scattered around.

Valerio Vidali is an Italian illustrator of children's books. His book Jemmy Button (Templar/Candlewick, 2013), co-authored with Jennifer Uman, was selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Books of 2013.