The Visitor Antje Damm
TITLE INFORMATION
Released: Fall 2018 (August) A story about friendship and shyness, full of light and color, that plays out in a mini theatre
Antje Damm is a celebrated
WHY I CHOSE THIS BOOK
children’s writer and illustrator. Born in 1965 in Wiesbaden, Germany, she now lives with her husband and four children near Giessen. She hasworked as an architect and has written and illustrated over a dozen books for children.
“This is a book that stays with you, with its powerful use of light and color to tell the story” Julia Marshall, Publisher SALES POINTS
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Unique artwork with a doll’s house appeal
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Three times prize winner, including Leipzig Book Fair children’s choice award, Nimmerland picture book award, 2nd prize Troisdorf award
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Damm creates a diorama from cardboard and photographs the scenes, giving the illustrations a special luminosity and depth
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Damm’s previous book Ask Me! has been translated into twelve languages and sold more than 170,000 copies around the world
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Elise was frightened—of spiders, people, even trees. So she never went out, night or day. ALSO AVAILABLE
One day a strange thing flies in through the window and lands at her feet. And then there comes a knock at the door. Elise has a visitor who will change everything. This is a gentle, sympathetic story about a child who unwittingly brings light and color—literally—into a lonely person’s life. REVIEWS
978-1-776571-41-3 HB $16.99 Ages 3+ 10.1 x 7.9 32 pages Hardback w/jacket $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-776571-88-8 Origin: Germany
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“Much more than a picture book: it is a little enchanting theatre play in book format—a unique colourful melody that flows and swings and jingles.” fixpoetry.com “. . . could not be more enchanting” Andrea Wanner, Magazin “As we know after reading The Visitor, sometimes it needs no more than a single piece of paper to make a person happy—and many, many readers.” Buchmarkt “... happiness spread so charmingly, elegantly and impishly” Hans ten Doornkaat