My favorite passage from the book:"Are we alive or dead?Where is that king with all the answers?We've come all this way.Let us see him!We made it through all those valleys!""Valleys? They were only an illusion, birds, a dream. We've been through nothing. We are just now at the beginning of our jo...
A visual improvisation over the themes in Farid ud-Din Attar's classic Persian book "The Conference of the Birds" (also "The Speech of the Birds"). To me Sís deserves to be called the best living book illustrator, that means: The Gustave Doré of our age. His images actually do not illustrate, but...
This was a beautiful, lyrical book. I make books from the indside out (handmade paper and binding, letterpress printing, etc.) and this stunning book has just been added to the shelf of books that I pull down and page through when I want to be inspired. The illustrations are gorgeous and layered ...
Fascinating tidbits add up to a pointillist portrait of Saint-Exupery's life. I found the tiny type and the pale illustrations difficult to read/view, and I wanted more of a thread tying the tidbits together. Also, given the title, I expected a more pointed exploration of S-E's book The Little Pr...
Here’s a question: Which would you rather be – a rat-catcher or a whipping boy? On the one hand, rat-catchers catch rats. On the other, whipping boys get whipped. A lot.At least they do when the prince is known throughout the kingdom as Prince Brat. And Jemmy, an orphan plucked from the streets t...
In the city of Aramanth, the lives of its citizens are ruled by a color-coded caste system of standardized tests. How well one does on the yearly “High Examination” determines what you do for work, where you live, and even what color clothing you wear. Those that test poorly find themselves consi...