Olivier Tallec. Chronicle, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4521-4198-5
With a format that enhances its playful concept, this narrow, vertically oriented book offers lineups of impish animals, monsters, and children, along with reader-directed questions. Visual clues in the illustrations hint at the answers to questions
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Olivier Tallec. Chronicle, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4521-5693-4
Tallec follows 2015’s Who Done It? with another round of questioning, with readers asked to identify the culprits in a series of low-stakes domestic incidents. Like the previous book, the pages lift vertically, and the low, squat dimensions of the...
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Olivier Tallec, trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione. Kids Can, $17.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-5253-0547-4
This droll French import follows a possessive, scrawny orange squirrel who is reminiscent, in both design and temperament, of Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel from the Ice Age films. The squirrel claims a specific tree and its pinecones, and...
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Oliver Tallec, trans. from the French by Claudia Zoe Bedrick. Enchanted Lion, $16.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-59270-290-9
Part field guide to children, part instruction manual for caretakers, this minimalist volume emphasizes the daily drudgery inherent in even a heroic child’s life, including trips to the eye doctor and dentist, and the tedium of tidying. Thoughout,...
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