LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month November 2022
Award -winning Levi Pinfold tells a haunting tale of enchantment and entrapment in a simple, beautifully formed text and his exquisite and atmospheric illustrations. On a journey through a hot and dry landscape a young girl and her brothers stop to pick flowers. While the brothers are led on to a forbidding palace where their thirst is quenched by plenty of drink and they are cooled by a swim in a beautiful pool, the young girl holds back. She alone avoids being enchanted by the Teller who rules the palace. While the boys are transformed into white birds she makes a deal that saves her life and allows her to bring her brothers home to safety. Levi Penfold’s illustrations set the unsettling tone of the story while also providing readers with scope for endless imagination.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Paradise Sands: A Story of Enchantment Synopsis
An enchanting tale of haunting places and mystical bargains, sumptuously illustrated by Levi Pinfold.
Washed clean in his pool, we fall under his rule
Away from what is, for we are now his.
When a young girl and her brothers step into the ghostly Paradise Sands hotel, they fall under the rule of the mysterious Teller. She makes a deal with him to free them all from his haunting paradise. But can she hold up her side of the bargain?
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9781406383942 |
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3rd November 2022 |
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Levi Pinfold |
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Levi Pinfold |
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Walker Books Ltd |
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Hardback |
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39 pages |
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Walker Studio |
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Press Reviews
Levi Pinfold Press Reviews
This is a strange tale, laden with ambiguities. However, herein lies the appeal; succinct, carefully chosen text and hauntingly beautiful artwork create a story that demands that its readers return to each page, trying to figure out answers to questions whose answers exist only in readers' imaginations. This mesmerizing work offers potential jumping-off points to discuss many topics, including magical realism, symbolism, family relationships and roles, and mental health. - Kirkus Reviews
Four children are on their way to pick up their mother from the hospital. During a stop to gather flowers, the brothers are lured into a mysterious palatial building, leaving their sister to rescue them, but at a cost. Pinfold's stunning artwork is worthy of attention from readers of all ages, and barely needs the words to tell the tale. Truly haunting! - A bookseller on Edelweiss
Pinfold's stunning illustrations, with majestic animals, stretching landscapes and Charn-like edifices, stayed with me long after I closed the final page. -- Charlotte Eyre - The Bookseller
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About Levi Pinfold
Winner of the Bronze Plaque Biennale for Illustration in Bratislava 2015.
Levi Pinfold graduated from University Collge Falmouth in 2006. He is currently a Freelance Author and Illustrator working in Bristol. He was chosen one of the Booktrust Best New Illlustrators of 2011.
On his win at the BIB 2015 the judges said 'Magic realist and enigmatic story telling full of detail, persuades the reader to revisit each page. Pinfold creates an eerie and enigmatic tale in a setting reminiscent of the outback of the ‘New-Worlds’ in the first half of the twentieth century.'
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