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大吴
大吴
Da Wu (大吴) is a picture book author and illustrator from China. Many of his works and essays are published in periodicals such as “Du You” and “Youth Digest” in China. He used to illustrate for authors including Keigo Higashino, Li Juan, and Liu Liangcheng. His picture book The King of Trees was selected by the UK dPICTUS in 2019 as one of the “World’s 100 Outstanding Picture Books” and was exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair that year. In 2019, his picture book Bird and Statue was awarded the New Talent Prize at the BIBF Ananas International Illustration Exhibition.
Works
Selected for the dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picturebooks and exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2019
Nobody knows one sapling could grow into a huge tree before it actually grows huge. When it was in medium size, they just saw it as an ordinary tree. The tree in town never stopped growing, only then people finally realized, that there was this huge tree standing there. They called it the king of trees, a miracle. It was people’s proud, until it became too huge. People started worried, and decided, to cut it down.
This is a book with trees as its protagonists, a book about human wrestling with nature, and a book reflecting on industrialization and urbanization.
Size: approx. 25 × 25 cm