J. Patrick Lewis 2002
Illustrated by Roberto Innocenti
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Last Resort
In honor of my beautiful Madeleine’s birthday, here is her favorite picture book since she was 7 years old. (And one of my favorites as well).
The characters are fantastic, the pictures amazing. An artist who has lost his inspiration goes for a stay at “The Last Resort”- a quaint seaside inn. While he’s there he meets an assortment of literary characters, from Calvino’s Baron in the trees to Emily Dickinson, to Antoine de Saint-Exupery, even Peter Lorre, and has his imagination jump-started.
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I'll have to look at this one when I come over again. I absolutely loved "The House". Lewis and Innocenti are quite the pair.
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