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Blob: The Ugliest Animal in the World
Joy Sorman
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Description for Blob: The Ugliest Animal in the World
Hardcover. quirky picture book by French artist - a fable about perception and the emptiness of fame which suggests that at-homeness in oneself is the true reward. .
Blob the fish is excited. He's just won the ugliest animal in the world contest! But the popularity and fame that accompany Blob's win soon go to his head. And the loneliness of his new title goes to his heart. And of course, fame never lasts forever.
Blob the fish is excited. He's just won the ugliest animal in the world contest! But the popularity and fame that accompany Blob's win soon go to his head. And the loneliness of his new title goes to his heart. And of course, fame never lasts forever.
Product Details
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
290g
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781592702077
SKU
V9781592702077
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About Joy Sorman
Joy Sorman was a philosophy professor before she devoting herself to journalism and writing. In 2005, she published her first work, Boys, Boys, Boys, a challenging feminist story about a girl who is a little different. Sorman also works in TV and radio journalism. The work of Olivier Tallec has been described as sensitive, stunning, breathtaking, and beautiful. Tallec was born in Brittany, France, in 1970. After graduating from the cole Sup rieure d'Art Graphique in Paris, he worked in advertising as a graphic designer, after which he devoted himself to illustration. Since then he has illustrated more than seventy books. Sarah Klinger is proud to count 'trilobite' as one of her first words. She has always been obsessed with unusual animals and the diversity of the natural world. After studying French and Psychology as an undergraduate, she received her MFA at School of Visual Arts in New York. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she draws, paints, translates, and has set a goal of walking every street on foot (eventually).
Reviews for Blob: The Ugliest Animal in the World
An irreverent and insightful modern fable about beauty, ugliness, the paths to acceptance, and how admiration hijacks our sense of self. ... The illustrations by Tallec lend the humorous story a lovely dimension of tenderness. Blob comes alive as a sensitive creature of contradictions
full of determination yet easily given to dejection, a living fable of ego and insecurity, easy to fault but also easy to love. ... Under Tallec's subtle brush, we see a difficult realization dawn on Blob
privilege is bestowed largely by chance and little of actual substance separates the most fortunate from the least fortunate. There is something charmingly subversive about the very premise, as paradoxical as the idea of trying to fail at failure. There is also something profound in the questions it raises about our civilizational fascination with beauty and its counterpoint
what does it really mean to be ugly...
Brain Pickings An insightful tale about beauty and self worth. The illustrations are incredible with personality and humor oozing from the pages.
The Reading Ninja
full of determination yet easily given to dejection, a living fable of ego and insecurity, easy to fault but also easy to love. ... Under Tallec's subtle brush, we see a difficult realization dawn on Blob
privilege is bestowed largely by chance and little of actual substance separates the most fortunate from the least fortunate. There is something charmingly subversive about the very premise, as paradoxical as the idea of trying to fail at failure. There is also something profound in the questions it raises about our civilizational fascination with beauty and its counterpoint
what does it really mean to be ugly...
Brain Pickings An insightful tale about beauty and self worth. The illustrations are incredible with personality and humor oozing from the pages.
The Reading Ninja