The Forest

Product Description A lyrical book about the adventure of life, The Forest is also a magnificent visual work, both painterly and a technical feat of paper engineering. Here, sensory experience and the textures of the material world are rendered through die-cuts, embossing, cutouts, and two gatefolds. A beautifully considered work. Riccardo Bozzi was born in Milan in 1966. He is a journalist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Violeta Lópiz is an illustrator from the Spanish island of Ibiza. Her beautifully textured work is filled with personality and playfulness. Valerio Vidali is an Italian illustrator based in Berlin. Vidali enjoys botanical gardens and spends his spare time building kites that rarely fly. Review A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2018 A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of 2018 A 2018 CBC Hot Off the Press selection Selected for exhibition in the 2018 Society of Illustrators Original Art show Featured in MilK Magazine Korea December 2018 Featured in Green Source DFW December 2018 gift guide ★ "Uncommonly beautiful...the sheer marvel of the design, together with the inclusive, open-ended mystery of what lies beyond the forest, makes this a wondrous piece of bookmaking for all ages. Much like a poem, it will evoke new emotions and layers of meaning with repeated readings."― Publishers Weekly "Like a fairy-tale walk in the woods, “The Forest” is a thrilling visual excursion into uncharted territory featuring elaborate die-cuts, gatefolds and embossed images created by two artists from Italy and Spain." ― Leonard Marcus " The Forest is one of the richest, most surprising picture books I've ever read. A true work of art in every sense, including as bookmaking. It's a landmark."―Bruce Handy, Author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult "THE FOREST is one of the 2-3 most beautiful & shattering picture books I’ve ever seen.” ―Dave Eggers, Best-Selling Author, Editor, Publisher, and Co-Founder of 826 National "As a book / object / artwork, this is just NUTS. And beautiful."―Simon Armstrong, Book Buyer at Tate Modern "The vibrant forest and its creatures peeking through the die-cut eyes of the barely visible faces remind us that the human role in nature is not that of conqueror or king but of humble witness and passing visitor." ―Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "...clever, instantly arousing curiosity... Students of design will appreciate the construction and the lush, vibrant compositions." ― Kirkus Reviews “This is an essentially existential children’s book, which imagines human life itself as an exploration through that famed and sometimes dark forest in which we have often been said to find ourselves. Like pretty much every title published by the small, independent Enchanted Lion books, it is a gorgeous, singular, unimprovable book. The story starts: ‘It is an enormous, ancient forest that has not yet been fully explored.’ Inside, a series of bas-reliefs and cut-outs on plain paper shows us first a baby, then a young child … and on through to an old, wrinkled face that eventually yields, becoming lines in a landscape from which new greenery grows. Between the images of a human aging, we see forests, jungles and fields, with animals and humans making their way, sometimes alone, sometimes in a group. Somehow ‘The Forest’ is a work of art that escapes feeling like an ‘art object’ ― it succeeds in being for children. The ink on its mylar dust jacket makes a distinctively beautiful sound. The eye-holes and occasional unfoldings alter a reader’s sense of space. ‘It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless.’ This book takes on even death: ‘At the end of the climb there is a ravine into which each explorer will eventually fall, despite the precautions taken and the advancements of science.’ This fall didn’t bother my 4-year-old at all. She took interest in the new seedlings, the disappearance o