Isle of Shadows (L'isola delle ombre)

empty, silent, empty, motionless

Because this is: the dream of the nonexistent

Between the Swamp of Desire and the Falls of Old Times lies a forest with no name. There is a dream coppice in the forest, and there lives a doctor wallaby. Doctor Wallaby specializes in treating a disease for animals. What disease? It is the disease of "nightmare". Like a Freud of the marsupials, he listens to the various night dreams of animals. He is good at analysis and treatment, and knows how to catch all kinds of rustling, sticky or squeaking nightmares. Doctor Wallaby never fails until the thylacine arrives with his unusual dream...  

▸ Author Davide Calì knows how to balance fun and seriousness in a story. He crafted an enthralling Australian wildlife cruise that turned into a sunken Noah's Ark. He makes the species that have drawn a rest come alive in the story, turning it into an ecological elegy with ups and downs. The confusing dream elements make readers more aware that the extinction of species is not a dream, but a real fact. Despite the story's implicit human responsibility, man is not mentioned in the book until the final introduction.

〖Image highlights〗

▸ Several proficient painting styles in the book are all done by the painter Claudia Palmarucci (Claudia Palmarucci). Her painting skills are both deep and broad, and she is good at switching styles and brushwork smoothly. In this book, she can be seen in the classic encyclopedic scientific illustrations, nineteenth-century copper engravings, explorer-like field sketches, precise close-up realism, Italian Renaissance and Netherlandish painting styles. , smooth transformation in every aspect.

▸ Her creations often have clear art historical reference coordinates, bringing a full reading level to picture books. Readers can appreciate instinctively, intuitively, and without context, without being aware of quotations, and simply enjoy the narrative of images; advanced readers can appreciate in a non-instinctive, analytical, and contextual way, and perceive her flexibility in combining classics wrist.

● About the thylacine: Also known as the Tasmanian tiger, it is a marsupial carnivorous mammal native to Australia. The last thylacine captured alive died in 1936.

●"Westerners seem to have a feature that they cannot understand rationally, that is, they value the lost things much higher than the existing things. Otherwise, it cannot explain the strange charm of the extinct thylacine." ——— "Death" Book of Things