by Michel Ocelot · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467223101
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«Azur & Asmar» is the children's novel by Michel Ocelot, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (72 pages, in Spanish).
Azur and Asmar, two boys raised as brothers, are separated by life. When grown, Azur travels to the land of the sun in search of the Fairy of the Djinns and reunites with Asmar, who is also seeking her; together they face dangers and spells.
The volume is the novelization of Michel Ocelot's movie «Azur et Asmar» (2006), published in Spanish in 2007. It includes the movie's dialogues and the author's preparatory drawings.
Recommended for young readers aged 8 and up and for those who want to relive the story told by Michel Ocelot.
Michel Ocelot is a French screenwriter, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 debut feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to commandeur earlier the same year. In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb.
