levi
pinfold
black
dog
This is a terrific picture book. I would even call it a profound book because is can teach us such wonderful things about the power and resilience of even the very smallest person. The illustrations are brilliantly rendered, and rich with detail and atmosphere, color and setting. I was first introduced to this book because it was an Honor book for the Horn Book Award 2013. LA
This is a terrific picture book. I would even call it a profound book because is can teach us such wonderful things about the power and resilience of even the very smallest person. The illustrations are brilliantly rendered, and rich with detail and atmosphere, color and setting. I was first introduced to this book because it was an Honor book for the Horn Book Award 2013. LA
A tall
pink house stands in a snowy forest; outside is a big black dog.
One by one the members of the Hope family see it and cower, and with every sighting the dog grows in size and fearsomeness until he is larger than the house itself.
One by one the members of the Hope family see it and cower, and with every sighting the dog grows in size and fearsomeness until he is larger than the house itself.
In most
spreads small sepia panels illuminate the action on one page with a single
bright, full color, full-page drawing opposite. The Hopes’ home is a hodgepodge
of homey detail, rendered with exquisite texture and cluttered composition,
where readers will enjoy searching among the dolls and decorations for
repeating characters and parallel stories.
The traditional feel of the
cumulative telling and the art’s surreal precision and fanciful decay combine
to offer a curious metaphorical consideration of what it means to be afraid and
what it takes to conquer those fears.
THOM BARTHELMESS in Horn Book Magazine
BLACK DOG Winner of the 2013 Kate Greenaway Medal. The judges citation noted in particular the clever way that the big dog in the illustrations "pushes the text off the page."
Booklist said in a starred review, "An inner imp has rarely been so sweetly and savvily rendered."
Black Dog was also winner of the 2013 Horn Book Honor Award
Also by Levi Pinfold
Levi Pinfold's debut book, The Django,
won a Booktrust Early Years Award.
Michael Foreman described it as,
"A virtuoso display of real drawing."
There's magic and music at the heart of this original and touching
story. When Little Jean first comes across the Django he just sees a tricksy
creature capable of causing absolute chaos. And, first by breaking Jean's
father's banjo and later by playing all kinds of tricks around the farm, that
is exactly what the Django does. Of course, Jean gets the blame for everything
that goes wrong as no one else can see Django. If only he can go back to life
before the Django.
Written as a tribute to the great musician Django Reinhardt, this
is also a touching story for all.
"What makes the book special is its painterly qualities;
take, for example, the picture of the caravan, standing in summer grass next to
a shed of stained corrugated iron. It is a fully imagined world. I liked, too,
the fierce authenticity of the father's face." The Observer
There's magic and music at the heart of this original and touching
story. When Little Jean first comes across the Django he just sees a tricksy
creature capable of causing absolute chaos. And, first by breaking Jean's
father's banjo and later by playing all kinds of tricks around the farm, that
is exactly what the Django does. Of course, Jean gets the blame for everything
that goes wrong as no one else can see Django. If only he can go back to life
before the Django.
Written as a tribute to the great musician Django Reinhardt, this
is also a touching story for all.
"What makes the book special is its painterly qualities;
take, for example, the picture of the caravan, standing in summer grass next to
a shed of stained corrugated iron. It is a fully imagined world. I liked, too,
the fierce authenticity of the father's face." The Observer
Levi Pinfold was born in the Forest of Dean. From a young age he
loved books and comics and spent many of his days drawing and writing his own
stories. At the age of seven, Pinfold went to watercolour classes where he was
introduced to the medium that he still works in. His love of stories, painting
and the work of illustrators such as Maurice Sendak, Alan Lee and Dave McKean
led him to study Illustration at the University College Falmouth, where he developed
narrative illustrations in his own style - a stylised realism - creating his
imagery from imagination.
The Django, his
debut picture book, is inspired by Pinfold's love of music. He won The
Booktrust Early Years Award in the Best Emerging Illustrator Category for 2010
for The Django. Levi is also one of 10 illustrators to win the
Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award in 2011. His second picture book for
Templar, Black Dog, was published in November 2011 to critical
acclaim and recently won the Children's Book Award in the AOI Illustration
Awards 2013. Levi is now living in Brisbane, Australia and working on a new picture book
for Templar slated for 2014 publication.
self-portrait
Levi Pinfold was born in the Forest of Dean. From a young age he
loved books and comics and spent many of his days drawing and writing his own
stories. At the age of seven, Pinfold went to watercolour classes where he was
introduced to the medium that he still works in. His love of stories, painting
and the work of illustrators such as Maurice Sendak, Alan Lee and Dave McKean
led him to study Illustration at the University College Falmouth, where he developed
narrative illustrations in his own style - a stylised realism - creating his
imagery from imagination.
The Django, his
debut picture book, is inspired by Pinfold's love of music. He won The
Booktrust Early Years Award in the Best Emerging Illustrator Category for 2010
for The Django. Levi is also one of 10 illustrators to win the
Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award in 2011. His second picture book for
Templar, Black Dog, was published in November 2011 to critical
acclaim and recently won the Children's Book Award in the AOI Illustration
Awards 2013. Levi is now living in Brisbane, Australia and working on a new picture book
for Templar slated for 2014 publication.
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