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48 pp.
| Eerdmans |
August, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8028-5471-1$14.00
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This Austrian import makes something gentle and quizzical of night as a young boy falls asleep. In a series of spreads, eight animals sleep in their rightful places; ninth is Manu, the boy. Flipping the book over offers another, more abstract picture as Manu dreams: the animals switch places. Bansch's atmospheric images, saturated with rich color, layer scratchy portraits atop collages of newsprint and tissue.
Reviewer: Thom Barthelmess
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2016