Wilbert

A tiny rat and her friend Wilbert are playing hide and seek. Despite being humongous, the rat cannot find Wilbert anywhere. A passing crocodile, with a mouth full of shiny teeth, offers the rat a helping hand. Together they search high and low, until eventually the rat spots Wilbert. But there’s a problem – the crocodile can’t see Wilbert, even when he’s standing right in front of him! Why ever not? Through captivating, witty illustrations and dialogue, Oskarsson majestically explores the complexities of human perspective.

Winner of Barnabókaheiðursløn Tórshavnar byráðs 2007 Winner of West Nordic Council's Children and Youth Literature Prize 2006

“He makes picture books with cool and warm humour that affects both children and adults. His books look like nothing else that is published for children.”;Berlingske;“A masterwork at minimalist storytelling... full of wit and wistful wonder”;Brain Pickings

Bárður Oskarsson (born 18 July 1972 in Torshavn) is an award-winning Faroese artist, author and illustrator. Early in his career, Oskarsson was an illustrator for the Faroese children’s magazine, Barnablaðið (now known as Strok). At the age of twenty, he illustrated his grandfather Oskar Hermannsson’s children’s novel, Undir tussafjøllum/Under the Troll Mountains (1992). Since then he has illustrated books by several Faroese authors including Marianna Debes Dahl and Guðrun Gaard.In 2004, he wrote and illustrated his first book - Ein hundur, ein ketta og ein mús / Dog, Cat and Mouse, which was later published in French (2006), Icelandic (2007), Danish (2008), Norwegian (2013), and is set for its English release in 2018 by Darf Children's Books. Oskarsson has since published six other children’s titles in Faroese, including The Flat Rabbit, which has now been translated into ten languages.

A tiny rat and her friend Wilbert are playing hide and seek. Despite being humongous, the rat cannot find Wilbert anywhere. A passing crocodile, with a mouth full of shiny teeth, offers the rat a helping hand. Together they search high and low, until eventually the rat spots Wilbert. But there's a problem - the crocodile can't see Wilbert, even when he's standing right in front of him! Why ever not? Through captivating, witty illustrations and dialogue, Oskarsson majestically explores the complexities of human perspective.

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