Levi Pinfold’s first book, The Django, was long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal in the U.K. A wanderer at heart, Levi Pinfold lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Pinfold’s story has a timeless quality despite its entirely
original flair, with sumptuous paintings and thumbnail
embellishments adding narrative and descriptive content... A great
pick for storytime, bedtime, anytime.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
An ode to scale, to the portholes and bay windows of Victorian
architecture, the poetry of family chatter, and steampunk elegance
of antique hot-water heaters, all are here for young eyes to
luxuriate in and imagine that they are courageous Small with their
family’s love shining down like rainbows. Fear, fun, and just
dripping with beauty, this title will pair perfectly with Neil
Gaiman’s The Wolves in the Walls.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Pinfold’s lavish, Van Allsburg-like illustrations, which juxtapose
tiny black-and-white sketches with big, detailed, frozen-in-time
paintings, are quirky, funny, and often heart- stopping. Part David
and Goliath, part Gingerbread Man, this UK import is a shot of
courage for those who need it most.
—Booklist (starred review)
Pinfold’s interiors are crammed with quirky detail, and his small
sepia vignettes, which cluster around the story’s text, are an
elegant detail. More crucially, the story stays focused, the pacing
is strong, and Small Hope is as charming as she is brave.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The traditional feel of the cumulative telling and the art’s
surreal precision and fanciful decay combine to offer a curious
metaphorical consideration of what it means to be afraid and what
it takes to conquer those fears.
—The Horn Book
Although a charming story on its own, the rich illustrations add
more detail and make the story come alive. Readers will enjoy the
message that you don’t have to be big to be courageous.
—Library Media Connection
The Australian author-illustrator Levi Pinfold alternates
full-page, full-color paintings with smaller, sepia-toned panels.
These last recall those of Chris Van Allsburg but have a style all
their own. Children and adults will relish the details of Pinfold’s
very fine paintings, set in a magical never-time of old typewriters
and wood-burning stoves and hand-painted furniture, in which people
wear assorted kitchen equipment as hats on their heads.
—New York Times online
This book evokes one of those classical renderings of THE NIGHT
BEFORE CHRISTMAS- so cozy are the interiors.
—The Huffington Post
With a clever story and lovely, expressive illustrations, Levi
Pinfold explores the idea that fear can often lead us to do think
and do foolish things.
—Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews
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