![]() ![]() Damm emphasizes how much people need others to care about, and readers will enjoy going back over the pages to see how the colors change. Elise’s house fills with color-warm yellow, fuchsia, and red-and we see her smile. The visitor by Antje Damm, 2018, Gecko Press edition, in English. First published in Germany in 2015, this is another curiously good book to be published by New Zealand house, Gecko Press. ![]() Watch an interview with Antje Damm to learn how she. Sure enough, the boy and Elise begin a most unexpected friendship. Antje Damm - Visitor, Hardcover - Elise was frightened-of spiders, people, even trees. New Zealand publisher Gecko Press brought this little gem to the United States where it has found many fans. “And can I visit your bathroom? It’s urgent!” As the boy heads upstairs, he leaves a trail of color behind him, and readers sense that things are going to change. ![]() ![]() Apron-wearing Elise likes to clean her home, but she doesn’t like to leave it: “Elise was scared of everything./ So she never went out./ Night or day.” A blue paper airplane sails in through the window of the dimly lit, grayscale house, and the following morning, there’s a knock at the door. To make the book’s spreads, German artist Damm ( Waiting for Goliath) draws the tale’s characters, then places their cutout figures in a small, tidy abode with furnishings crafted of paper and board, and photographs them inside. ![]()
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