Skunk on a String Format: Hardcover

By Thao Lam

ISBN 10: 177147131X / ISBN 13: 9781771471312

Published by Owlkids, 2016

About this Item

Unread copy in mint condition.

Seller Inventory # PG9781771471312

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Skunk on a String Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: Owlkids
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 177147131X
• ISBN 13: 9781771471312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

The highly anticipated wordless picture book from debut author and collage artist Thao Lam

"Wordless... colorful... hilarious." Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

In Skunk on a String, we meet a skunk who has been tied to the tail of a balloon. Try as he might, the persistent critter can’t get anyone to untie him. In this wordless story, he is shooed and swatted through a bustling parade, past the windowpanes of the city’s apartment buildings with their diverse, busy inhabitants, then up to the construction cranes high above the city. He floats through the zoo, into traffic, under water, and eventually lands atop a Ferris wheel. When he finally unties himself, the skunk misses the aerial life ― so he comes up with an inspired way to fly again.

Paper collage art in whimsical colors and patterns ― polka dots, gingham, and florals ―creates a playful dynamic and brilliantly captures details of urban life, from the legs of a crowd to window boxes, spilled ice cream, and clothing flapping on clotheslines. This heartwarming, highly visual adventure takes a new vantage point on the ordinary and shows the skunk expanding his horizons, overcoming adversity, and, eventually, helping himself.

About the Author

THAO LAM is the critically acclaimed author/illustrator of THAO, Wallpaper, My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Skunk on a String, and The Paper Boat, named a best book of 2020 by Kirkus, Booklist, School Library Journal, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and others . She studied illustration at Sheridan College and has an insatiable love of colored and textured papers, which she uses to create her exuberant collages. She draws inspiration from the stories she hears, from the beauty in everyday things, and from the work of the many illustrators she admires. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.