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 a single gatefold. A beautifully considered work. Riccardo Bozzi was born in Milan in 1966. He is a journalist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. He lives in Milan. Violeta Lopiz 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.

 

This book was recognised in the Best Illustrated Book category by the New York Times Book Review.

There are 72 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2018 by Enchanted Lion Books .

Alix Barzelay has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and teaches children creative writing. This is her first children's book. Jennifer Uman is a self-taught painter and illustrator and Valerio Vidali is an Italian illustrator. Violeta Lopiz is a Berlin-based Spanish illustrator. She has illustrated several books including Amigos do Peito (Bruaa, 2014) and Les poings sur les iles (Editions du Rouergue, 2011), which received the CJ Picture Book Award 2011 in the New Books category. El Cultural, the supplement of El Mundo, considers her one of the top ten names of contemporary Spanish illustration. Valerio Vidali is an Italian illustrator of children's books. His book Jemmy Button (Templar/Candlewick, 2013), co-authored with Jennifer Uman, was selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Books of 2013. Riccardo Bozzi is a journalist and has worked for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera since 1990. He is the author of The World Belongs to You, illustrated by Olimpia Zagnoli (Templar/Candlewick, 2013). His forthcoming book Cher auteur, illustrated by Giancarlo Ascari and Pia Valentinis, will be published by Helium in Fall 2016. Riccardo Bozzi was born in Milan in 1966. He is a journalist and works for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Olimpia Zagnoli was born in 1984 in a small town in northern Italy. Her work has been included The New York Times, the New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Adidas Originals, Rolling Stone, Corriere della Sera and American Illustration 30. Olimpia drives a yellow Fiat. Author Riccardo Bozzi lives in Milan, Italy; Olimpia lives in Milan, Italy.