The Only Child Author:Guojing Like Shaun Tan's The Arrival and Raymond Briggs's The Snowman, this gorgeous and imaginative 100-page graphic picture book is utterly transporting and original. — — A little girl?lost and alone?follows a mysterious stag deep into the woods, and, like Alice down the rabbit hole, she finds herself in a strange and wondrous world. But . . . home an... more »d family are very far away. How will she get back there?
In this magnificently illustrated?and wordless?masterpiece, debut artist Guojing brilliantly captures the rich and deeply-felt emotional life of a child, filled with loneliness and longing as well as love and joy.
"Majestic.... Rare is the book containing great emotional depth that truly resonates across a span of ages: this is one such." ?Kirkus Reviews, Starred« less