Ballad
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Description
Ballad is a story, and like all great stories it deepens with each retelling.
Ballad builds over seven sequences. The first has three images: school, path, home. The next builds upon the first, giving us: school, street, path, forest, home. The next five sequences take up this story, but with new words and images that nearly double the previous sequence. Here a child encounters the world as he returns home from school, and we see his small world become enormous. This story is as old as the world. It happens every day.
Blexbolex is a bold, highly talented graphic artist. In addition to creating comics, he's been internationally acclaimed for Seasons, selected as a 2012 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year; and People.
Ballad builds over seven sequences. The first has three images: school, path, home. The next builds upon the first, giving us: school, street, path, forest, home. The next five sequences take up this story, but with new words and images that nearly double the previous sequence. Here a child encounters the world as he returns home from school, and we see his small world become enormous. This story is as old as the world. It happens every day.
Blexbolex is a bold, highly talented graphic artist. In addition to creating comics, he's been internationally acclaimed for Seasons, selected as a 2012 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year; and People.
Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore
Juvenile Fiction / Royalty
About this Author
Blexbolex is a bold and highly talented graphic artist. In addition to creating numerous comics, he has been internationally acclaimed for his books Seasons, which was selected as a 2012 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and People,which received the prestigious Goldene Letter Award in 2009 for "Best Book Design throughout the World."
Reviews
New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of 2013
"As a story, it's challenging, mysterious, and even obscure. As an object and a piece of bookmaking, it's a work of art." -- Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"This book is unlike anything I've ever seen before...It's a puzzle, a fairy tale, an adventure, a love story, made with words and pictures used in a new, utterly beguiling way. The silk-screened images, made with unbelievable fluorescent ink, will draw you in and will leave you breathless till the end."--Brian Selznick, author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brainpickings' Top 13 Children's, Illustrated, and Picture Books of 2013
"As a story, it's challenging, mysterious, and even obscure. As an object and a piece of bookmaking, it's a work of art." -- Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"This book is unlike anything I've ever seen before...It's a puzzle, a fairy tale, an adventure, a love story, made with words and pictures used in a new, utterly beguiling way. The silk-screened images, made with unbelievable fluorescent ink, will draw you in and will leave you breathless till the end."--Brian Selznick, author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brainpickings' Top 13 Children's, Illustrated, and Picture Books of 2013
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