My Valley by Ponti, Claude

My Valley (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780914671626)

Vendor: Claude Ponti
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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My Valley by Ponti, Claude

My Valley

$24.00
My Valley by Ponti, Claude

My Valley

$24.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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In My Valley, Claude Ponti leads us on a journey through an enchanted world inhabited by "Touims" (tiny, adorable, monkey-like creatures), secret tree dwellings, flying buildings, and sad giants. Clever language and beautifully detailed maps of imaginary landscapes will delight children and adults alike. Ponti himself has said, "My stories are like fairytales, always situated in the marvelous, speaking to the interior life and emotions of children. That way each child can get what they want out of the images: the characters and dreams are their own."

Author: Claude Ponti
ISBN-10: 0914671626
ISBN-13: 9780914671626
Publisher: Elsewhere Editions
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 42
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 14.80h x 10.80w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2016 pg. 171
Booklist 02/01/2017 pg. 54
School Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 73
Shelf Awareness 03/10/2017
Publishers Weekly 05/08/2017
By Claude Ponti
By Claude Ponti
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CLAUDE PONTI is a prolific author, painter, and illustrator, known for his humorous explorations of the nonsense world of dreams. His first picture book, Adele's Album, was created to amuse his young daughter; he has since authored more than sixty children's books. On a personal note, Claude says: "I'm left-handed; I prefer cats to dogs (they don't lick people); and I'm not a vegetarian because I can't stand the cry of the lettuce or the carrot wrenched from the earth." He also fondly remembers climbing trees as a young boy, looking for the best spot to sit and read a book. Claude Ponti currently divides his time between the French countryside (where there are many birds, such as pheasants) and Paris (where there are pigeons).

Translator ALYSON WATERS's translations include Albert Cossery's A Splendid Conspiracy and The Colors of Infamy, Vassilis Alexakis's Foreign Words, René Belletto's Coda, and - with Donald Nicholson-Smith - Yasmina Khadra's Cousin K. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Yale University and New York University.

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