Genre: Illustrated Children's Fiction (8 Listed volumes)

Elena Ferrante, Chiara Lagani, Mara Cerri

My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel

2023, pp. 256, $ 26.00
Region: Italy

Elena Ferrante’s New York Times bestselling masterpiece, My Brilliant Friend, book one of her Neapolitan Quartet, is now an extraordinary and vibrant graphic novel, with text adapted by Chiara Lagani, and illustrations by Mara Cerri.
Veronica Cossanteli

The Marvelous Land of Snergs

2022, pp. 307, $ 17.99
Region: Britain

A funny, quirky, brand-new story based on E.A. Wyke-Smith’s classic, the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, featuring wonderful illustrations from Melissa Castrillón.
Timothée de Fombelle

The Wind Rises
Book 1 of The Alma Series

2022, pp. 410, $ 18.99
Region: France

FROM THE BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE PRIX SORCIÈRES From Europe to Africa to the Caribbean, this first installment in the Alma trilogy tells a gripping story of hope, perseverance, and love that readers will not soon forget. 1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old...
Muriel Barbery

The Writer's Cats

2021, pp. 80, $ 17.00
Region: France

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes this delightful, delicate tale that pays tribute to the poetry of the everyday, to Japanese philosophy, and to the ingenuity and sardonic humor of cats. What a mysterious, confounding thing is a writer! Yet, spend a little...
Joan Haig

Tiger Skin Rug

2021, pp. 200, $ 17.00
Region: Britain

Shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize 2021 Two homesick Indian boys and their new Scottish friend join a magical tiger on a journey across continents. Lal and his brother Dilip miss home. They don’t like drizzle, midges, or the tiger skin rug in their creepy new house. All...
Elena Ferrante

The Beach at Night

2016, pp. 48, $ 13.00
Region: Italy

The Beach at Night is a short, moving, and mysterious tale for future and present readers of Ferrante’s beloved novels.
Jane Gardam

The Hollow Land

2015, pp. 160, $ 15.00
Region: Britain

These stories capture the beauty of the barren Cumbrian countryside, and among its few inhabitants, the lives of two young boys, Bell Teesdale and Harry Bateman. Bell, from a farming family, has been raised in the dialect, hard work, and myth of the fells. His new friend Harry is a tourist whose family...
Wolf Erlbruch

The Big Question

2005, pp. 52, $ 14.95
Region: Germany

Winner of the 2004 Bologna Book Fair Ragazzi Award.