(click the drawing to buy the book)
Duck, Death and the Tulip is by German author/illustrator Wolf Erlbruch, winner of the 2006 Hans Christian Anderson Medal for Illustration. This painfully beautiful book is to be released presently, sometime in August, and is the translated version of Erlbruch's German original.
The publisher, Gecko Press (NZ), specialises in producing English versions of foreign-language childrens books in which they have apparently found a niche. Thanks to Gecko, European authors and illustrators are potentially afforded an audience that they would not otherwise have. And we, the readers, are given the chance to be totally haunted by such stories as this.
I read an advance copy at work a few weeks ago and it's been repeating in my mind ever since.
Poor Duck.
Its maybe like what Tim Burton would do if he made a picturebook, except quieter.
I will for absolute sure be buying a copy of this book for myself and suggest if you can find it nearby that you do the same.
3 comments:
He is the cutest Death I have ever seen. I want this book. Like a lot.
this is an oddly creepy but wonderful picture.
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