Dentro de una cebra
by Micaela Chirif & Renato Moriconi
Description
Sometimes we face life head on, and other times we see it from only one side. Sometimes we watch it through the window, from a balcony or from safely behind enormous sunglasses. There are times when we see it in little squares and others when it’s tinted all rosy. At one time or another, we’ve all looked at what’s around us from some peculiar point of view. But… Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like to see life from inside a zebra?
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Honorable Mention – New York Rights Fair in Category: Children's Picture Books
Selection of International Children's and Youth Literature - White Raven 2019
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What’s special about this book is that its text is hermetic and puzzling, but at the same time open and conducive to many interpretations. The first-person narrator explains that for a time he lived inside a zebra, until the zebra asked whether the two of them ought not “move on”, at which point they flew away into the clouds. What this zebra is – an actual animal, or a space, a location, or a particular mental attitude, an emotion, a dream… – remains unclear. The answer is irrelevant, though. It is this very ambiguity that makes Micaela Chirif’s text captivating: No explanation is given, no resolution is offered, which is why readers must define its meaning – or perhaps its lack thereof – for themselves. Renato Moriconi’s pictures, black watercolour on white and orange backgrounds, offer no further guidance. Rather than explain the words, they instead offer an artful exercise in confusion of black-and-white stripes and alternating light and shadows that play on light and dark, on inside and outside.
Limonero
Founded in 2014 by Lulu Kirschenbaum and Manuel Rud, Limonero publishes works that are imaginative and innovative both visually and textually. The drive behind Limonero has always been to build a catalog of titles that we consider indispensible to readers little and large, to bring the illustrated book to readers of all ages. Among other awards and mentions, Limonero received the prestigious BOP Prize, the award for Best Latin American Publisher, at the 2019 Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
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- Publisher Limonero
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789874598882
- Publication Country or regionArgentina
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 15 USD
- Pages44
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2018
- Dimensions28x22 cm
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