The Holidays

Author: Blexbolex

"Blexbolex creates books for everybody that compel us to keep coming back, to read again and again and again. He is an absolute master." Julia Marshall, Publisher

A stunning children's book from a master illustrator that evokes the scent of summer and the complications of friendship. The summer holidays were here. I had the garden, the fields, the lake and the sun-all to myself! And then Grandfather brought something home that tipped everything out of balance ...

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Summary

"Blexbolex creates books for everybody that compel us to keep coming back, to read again and again and again. He is an absolute master." Julia Marshall, Publisher

Description

The summer holidays were here. I had the garden, the fields, the lake and the sun—all to myself! And then Grandfather brought something home that tipped everything out of balance ...

Critic Reviews

"A surreal, challenging, engaging beauty of a book." -- Children’s Books Ireland
"Each beautifully textured and detailed picture cleverly reflects the little girl’s changing moods, her flights of imagination and her colourful dreams, allowing children to mentally climb on board with the adventure and work out the mysteries hidden in the story" -- Black Pool Gazetta (UK)

"An entirely new, wholly different form of bewitching visual storytelling."

-- Brainpickings

About the Author

Blexbolex is a French comics artist and illustrator living in Berlin. Born Bernard Granger, he trained as a painter, and studied screen printing at the School of Fine Arts in Angoulême, France. He is renowned throughout the world and has been nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize.