author/illustrator: Sophie Guerrive
ages: 6+
56 pages
19 x 27 cm
hardback
4048
Sold: Complex Chinese (r), Spanish, Catalan, Italian
The Friends Club 3, The Club and the Bear
The coldness of winter has suddenly fallen upon the Friends Club, with only a very poor cabin as a haven. Suddenly stuck in the snow, they have no real shelter. Tulip, Crocus and Violet therefore go looking for another house, through the dark and cold woods, and find refuge in a cave. It’s not very reassuring, especially since a big scary bear lives there and forces them to flee into the forest. The friends separate without meaning to and Tulip disappears, once again!
With the help of Spring, the sky clears up, the hills emerge, and a house appears in the distance. Violet and Crocus master up courage, go knock on the door, and discover Tulip! The three friends hug, but Tulip is no longer quite the same: she does not want Violette and Crocus to return to the house. Could this be the end of the Friends Club?
This time, seeing them grow and move away from the nest, the reader will be seized with deep concern. Just like watching real children grow up.
Other volumes available in the series:
- The Friends Club 1 (Winner of the 2021 Angoulême FIBD award, 8-12 years category)
- The Friends Club 2
- The Friends Club 4
- The Friends Club 5
THE AUTHOR
Sophie Guerrive was born in 1983 in Marseille (France) and studied art in Aix-en-Provence then illustration in Strasbourg. She took part in various newspapers, magazines, fanzines. Since 2007, she has published several comic and illustration books. Besides her short and minimalistic stories influenced by comic strips like Peanuts or Mafalda, she also works on larger and very detailed drawings inspired by medieval illumination, oriental miniatures or Japanese prints. Her stories are often tinged with adventure and absurd humour, and feature her favourite themes: the marine world, initiatory journeys, the ancient and medieval periods, and visual and narrative symbolism.
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