by Peter Sís · Farrar Straus & Giroux · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780374467258
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«A Small Tall Tale From The Far Far North» is a picture book by Peter Sís, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in paperback (40 pp., in English).
The work follows Jan Welzl, a young Czech who at the end of the 19th century traveled from Europe to the far north and remained in the Arctic for thirty years. The book combines history and legend to narrate his odyssey, his life with the Inuit, and his career as an explorer, with maps, narrative vignettes, panoramas, and a myth in pictograms.
Reissue of a work originally published in 1993. Peter Sís was born in 1949, and the book belongs to children's and young adult literature.
Work aimed at child and young adult readers, especially those seeking stories of exploration, Arctic cultures, and visual storytelling.
Peter Sís is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books. As a cartoonist his editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly. In 2012 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his "lasting contribution" as an illustrator of children's literature.
