
Title:
Griso : the one and only
Edition:
First Elsewhere edition.
Publication Date:
2024
2016
Publication Information:
Brooklyn, NY : Elsewhere Editions, 2024.
©2016
Physical Description:
23 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9781962770088
Abstract:
A unicorn searches for others just like him in this vibrant and shapeshifting tale by Batchelder-Honor author and illustrator, Roger Mello. The last of his kind, Griso travels the world searching for unicorn companions. He asks beetles, chameleons, and buffalos if they've seen any mythical creatures like him, and all send him on his way saying, "Neither here nor at the edge of the world." Griso gallops across plains, marshes, and mountains, he trots into the sunset and chats with fearsome narwhals by the sea. On each spread, we see Griso rendered in a new artistic style, portrayed as a shadowy cave painting, a chivalrous medieval stead, or lost along a mind-bending surrealist horizon. Griso, the Unique introduces young readers to artistic movements spanning the 7th to 18th century, leaping across time and colour with the flip of a page. In Daniel Hahn's exquisite translation, Griso, the Unique opens the doors to a world of African painting, Tang Dynasty murals, medieval tapestries, and art hidden beneath Egyptian pyramids. A song of colour, time, expression, and a fantastical search for belonging by Brazilian visionary, Roger Mello.
General Note:
Illustrations based on native art of the world.
Translation of: Griso o unico / Roger Mello.
Genre:
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English, translated from the Portuguese.