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48 pp.
| TOON
| June, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-1-943145-16-4$12.95
(3)
K-3
Translated by Skeeter Grant.
In this comic book translated from the French, Adele escapes a crowded sandbox and embarks on a fantastic adventure. To ease beginning readers, the straightforward, deadpan text runs along the white space at the bottom of the pages. The ink and watercolor illustrations, reminiscent of Maurice Sendak's art, make no such concessions, instead reveling in the grotesque and in their own busy complexity.