The Heartless Troll

Øyvind Torseter author Kari Dickson translator

Format:Board book

Publisher:Enchanted Lion Books

Published:29th Sep '16

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Heartless Troll cover

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  • In this graphic novel fairytale, our hero finds himself rescuing a princess and trying to outwit a troll to free his brothers from the troll's curse.A fun twist on an old fairytale called "The Troll with No Heart," The Heartless Troll is about a troll who's hidden his heart and the seventh son of a king who goes in search of his six brothers. The young man's journey brings him to a mountain, a captive princess, and a terrifying troll. The illustrations are by turns fanciful and lovely as well as dark and terrifying, but a continuous thread of good humor and playfulness runs thorugh the whole story. Oyvind Torseter is a Norwegian artist, illustrator, comic book artist, and author. Torseter studied illustration at the Merkantilt Institutt in Oslo, the School for Graphic Design in Oslo, and the Kent Institute of Art and Design in England. In addition to his own books, Torseter has illustrated books by other authors, including My Father's Arms Are a Boat by Stein Erik Lunde.

    "The delicate, spidery lines and dark landscapes of Torseter's panels combine the energy of Ralph Steadman, the effervescence of Jules Feiffer, and the charm of the Moomintrolls. Mordant grotesquerie vies with hilarity... Dickson's translation shines as well." -- STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly "The story ends with Fred and the princess riding off on the horse to the refrains of an octopus playing a saxophone--an oddly perfect ending for this one-of-a-kind graphic novel." -- Starred Review, The Horn Book Review

    ISBN: 9781592701933

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: 300g

    120 pages