The Prickletrim family are very proud of their pristine garden, with its razor-straight edges, regulation-height lawn and perfectly shaped topiary. They LOVE nature -- just so long as it is well ordered and properly managed. Then one day their long-suffering gardener quits and something extraordinary happens.
Free at last, the Prickletrims garden explodes upwards and outwards. As the garden invades every corner of their lives, the Prickletrims are forced to change. Can they GO WILD?
The Prickletrims Go Wild is a playful yet profound celebration of untamed nature, with beautiful, startling illustrations that burst across the page. Quirky imagination and gentle humour weave their way through this delightfully distinctive picture book from Marie Dorléans, award-winning creator of 2021 New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Book The Night Walk.
Marie Dorleans is an award-winning children?s author and illustrator from France. Her picture book The Night Walk won the prestigious Landerneau Children?s Book Prize in 2019 and was named a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Childrens Book in 2021. She currently lives in Strasbourg, France.
Broad comedy pokes fun at those trying to exercise control over untamable forces, while spreads remind readers of the magnificence of nature left to its own devices.
-- Publishers Weekly
Praise for The Night Walk:
Awash in nocturnal blue, Dorléanss graphite pencil illustrations of a family of nighttime explorers evoke a luminous sense of wonder.
-- Jessica Agudelo, New York Times
Narrated by one of the children, the prose shines with sensory acuity as the family leaves a village behind them with a particular location in mind. Navy washes overlay graphite pencil and digital illustrations, with fine-lined detail so startlingly observed that readers will feel immersed in each expansive spread.
-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
The poetic, evocative text immerses readers in a nocturnal world... This hushed, intimate picture book creates a respite from the demands of the daytime world and pulls readers into a moment of pure wonder and peace.
-- The Horn Book Magazine, Starred Review
Beautifully composed and often striking... This rewarding picture book invites children to experience a memorable encounter with the natural world.
-- Booklist, Starred Review
Watercolor and graphite pencil illustrations depict an enveloping nocturnal world through saturations of indigo. Young readers hearts will quicken, feeling embraced by night made real with breathtaking, full-bleed washes of blue that stretch across double-page spreads... Urgency, exhilaration, and anticipation make the walks conclusion, a luminous, lemony daybreak, all the more powerful.
-- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
