Toon Tellegen, trans. from the French by Bill Nagelkerke, illus. by Marc Boutavant. Gecko Press USA (Lerner, dist.), $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-927271-57-5
This pictorial volume seems to promise peaceful coexistence, but its loosely connected chapters instead offer scenes of deliberate disagreement. An earthworm and beetle compete to see who is angrier. A stubborn elephant, bruised after falling from a
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Toon Tellegen, trans. from the Dutch by David Colmer, illus. by Ingrid Godon. Elsewhere, $22 (105p) ISBN 978-1-939810-32-8
Godon’s soft, unsettling portraits came before Tellegen’s poems; an opening note says that Tellegen “sought out stories behind Ingrid’s many faces.” Most of the pictures are of children, their implacable expressions casting doubt on the idea of...
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Toon Tellegen, trans. from the Dutch by Martin Cleaver, illus. by Jessica Ahlberg. Boxer (Sterling, dist.), $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-90715-239-9
In Tellegen and Ahlberg’s fourth collection of animal stories (including Far Way Across the Sea and Letters to Anyone and Everyone), a hedgehog gets stuck in a bush and opts to embrace the situation, an ant rescues a badger from a bad mood (and near
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