The artist’s use of color is especially striking: His battle scenes are ample, bloodily scarlet affairs, and Polyphemus’s cave is a stifling orange he depicts the underworld as a colorless, mirthless void, domestic spaces in warm tans, the all-encircling sea in a light Mediterranean blue and some of the far-away islands in almost tangibly growing greens. Lush watercolors move with fluid lines throughout this reimagining.
Gods mingle with the mortals, and not heeding their warnings could lead to quick danger being mere men, Odysseus and his crew often make hasty errors in judgment and must face challenging consequences. Following Odysseus’s journey to return home to his beloved wife, Penelope, readers are transported into a world that easily combines the realistic and the fantastic. Hinds adds another magnificent adaptation to his oeuvre ( King Lear, 2009, etc.) with this stunning graphic retelling of Homer’s epic. If this book isn’t quite a masterpiece, it’s certainly a treasure, and that’s more than enough. The gorgeous, art nouveau–inspired black-and-white drawings, many of which seem to consciously echo such divergent talents as Arthur Rackham and Robert Lawson, however, are magnificent, and a few sentences describing sleepwalkers who speak in unison may haunt readers for years. She’s just another sorceress in a fantasy book, one in a long line of evildoers who want youth and power-but this is a fairy tale, after all. The villainess, unfortunately, distracts from those ideas. And, more important, after her adventures in the woods, Snow White might find sitting on a throne as dull as lying in a glass coffin. Snow White, after years in a sleeping spell, might not be affected by the enchantment placed on Sleeping Beauty. The story combines two fairy tales, and it contains two startling ideas. Even the page numbers have gold filigree. Almost every page is decorated with gold leaf. This new collaboration is a spectacular art object. Other artists illustrated the books in the U.S., quite beautifully, but the British editions are objects of envy for many fans. The illustrations in Fortunately, the Milk are a marvel of draftsmanship, and Coraline and The Graveyard Book are considered classics. The two men have collaborated on a number of books published in the U.K., to great success.
Lavishly produced, this amazingly beautiful book makes a spectacular and magical gift.Is it fair to expect a masterpiece when Gaiman and Riddell work together? Probably. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents and was the winner of the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. This queen will decide her own future – and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and ventures into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. Weaving together hints of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with a shimmering thread of dark magic, this twist on classic fairytales will hold readers spellbound from start to finish.
The bestselling, award-bedecked Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are reunited in this irresistible fairytale reboot. Bloomsbury presents The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adjoa Andoh, Michael Maloney, John Sessions, Peter Forbes and Niamh Walsh.
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