Jack and the Fallen Giants
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A poor boy... a handful of magical beans... a beanstalk... an army of giants... It's a story every child knows... Or is it? From the mind of Jonathan Pageau and a storytelling tradition older than the Brothers Grimm comes Jack and the Fallen Giants. This numinous retelling of a beloved classic allows modern readers to reclaim the beauty of this well-beloved fairy tale through insightful storytelling and iconic illustrations. Like all great fairy tales, Jack and the Fallen Giants is written to be enjoyed by children, but contains hidden treasures for readers of all ages. The book is beautifully illustrated by Eloise Scherrer. As a young artist, Eloise was deeply inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and has spent her career giving shape and color to the best of European fantasy literature. Her attention to depth, textures, movement, and light creates whimsical and vivid illustrations that draw the reader into a realm of enchantment and imagination. Jack and the Fallen Giants is the second volume of a series of eight fairy tale books called Tales for Once & Ever, written by Jonathan Pageau. Together, these stories weave an enchanting tapestry of well-known characters and narratives, ushering modern readers into a fairy tale world worthy of our great heritage. Hardcover. 56 pages with 24 full color illustrations.
Snow White and the Widow Queen Unsigned
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Snow White and the Widow Queen is an invitation to dive back into a lived experience that is expressed in all of our folk and fairy tales. The Brothers Jacob and Wilhem Grimm did not write down anything "new" when they collected and published their stories in 1812. It was not an analysis or a new spin on some old yarn. Rather, their publications preserved a tradition that related a lived experience through symbols. This book is a return to a storytelling style — reviving an iconic narrative approach as a way to share that lived experience that our ancestors were sharing in their homes, with their families, and in their communities long before modern times. This book also enhances that renewed story experience with striking illustrations that are invented alongside the narrative in a way that invites us — even implicates us — in the symbolic landscape through details that have always been there — like breadcrumbs — all along. Pageau and Pollington's retelling honors the simple narrative styles of old, inviting us to remember and rediscover childhood enchantment, and to reawaken our deep heritage of myth and story -- a heritage that still has deep secrets to reveal after all these centuries. Hardcover. 53 pages with 20 full color illustrations.
GodsDog: Monster (Vol 1)
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God's'Dog: Monster is the first volume in a graphic novel series. It begins the legendary retelling of the story of the dog-headed Saint Christopher woven into an epic legendary world, where angels, giants, dragons as well as warrior saints and mysterious monks deal with the consequences of the world's very first relic. Written by the Pageau Brothers, illustrated by Cord Nielson and colored by Felipe Cartin. Hardcover, 118 pages in full color.