Books by Torben Kuhlmann and Complete Book Reviews
Torben Kuhlmann, trans. from the German by Suzanne Levesque. NorthSouth (Ingram, dist.), $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7358-4167-3
In a project that seamlessly blends elements of a picture book, comic, and novel, gifted newcomer Kuhlmann imagines that the world’s first transatlantic flight was made not by Charles Lindbergh, but by an intrepid German mouse flying in the opposite
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Torben Kuhlmann, trans. from the German by Andrew Rushton. NorthSouth (IPS, dist.), $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7358-4208-3
Kuhlmann follows his sprightly debut, Lindbergh (2014), with a somber social commentary, some of whose significance will be grasped only by older readers. In 15 cutaway spreads of life underground, he depicts the rise and fall of a civilization of...
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Torben Kuhlmann, trans. from the German by David Henry Wilson. NorthSouth (IPS, dist.), $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7358-4262-5
Kuhlmann’s Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse is a hard act to follow, but this companion book doesn’t disappoint. Its young mouse hero is plagued by difficulties from the moment he resolves to explore space. Although he finds an ally in an...
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Torben Kuhlmann, trans. from the German by David Henry Wilson. NorthSouth, $22.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7358-4554-1
In this extended illustrated narrative, creator Kuhlmann (the Mouse Adventures series) paints a dystopian city whose buildings, vehicles, and murky sky are shades of the same steely gray. After young Robin moves there with her father, she ventures...
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