author/illustrator: Gilles Baum/Amandine Piu
ages: 5+
48 pages
29.7 x 21 cm
hardback
French
Amaterra
Rights sold: English (UK and US), Basque, Spanish (Mexico et US), Greek, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil)
Palmir
This work recounts with great sensitivity the journey of a little dragon who flees his war-torn country.
He leaves everything behind: his suitcase is empty. He’s filled with diverse emotions: fear, suffering, sadness. But also pride, when he finds a solution to a difficulty, and joy when sometimes his traveling becomes a game, because he remains, after all, a child. The simplicity of verbs in the infinitive and the symbolism of images leave space for the reader’s imagination and interpretation.