Imelda & the Goblin King

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		Imelda & the Goblin King
		Imelda & the Goblin King

Filled with inventiveness and beautiful art, this is an unmissable story from a fresh new talent.

Far away behind the hills a girl called Imelda lives beside a fairy forest. Every day she ventures into the forest to play with her fairy friends. But within the deepest, darkest depths of the trees lives the worst creature of all—the Goblin King! When he kidnaps the Fairy Queen, the fairies call upon Imelda to help. Soon she has a cunning plan to turn the Goblin King into a worm and rid the forest of him for good!

Briony May Smith studied illustration at Falmouth College, where she caught the eye of Flying Eye Books and her first picture book, Imelda and the Goblin King, was snapped up straight away! She currently works and lives in Sandhurst, England.

Enchantingly illustrated [...] delicious illustrations—jammed with pixies, fairies, toadstools, dragonflies and, at one point, pies and roasts and fruits and cakes
—Wall Street Journal

Blending a 1970s palette with an aesthetic that feels right at home with contemporary indie comics, Smith makes an assured debut as she brings a fresh look to an old-fashioned story of fairies, goblins, and comeuppances. […] an all-around satisfying read.
—Publishers Weekly

Smith’s lively illustrations fill each page with scratchy, loose figures, beautifully colored in a rich, saturated palette, all in an old-fashioned aesthetic that perfectly complements the timeless tale.
—Booklist

I LOVE the illustrations! They are absolutely beautiful and completely have my heart. Check this one out, you won’t regret it!
—Book Nerd Mommy

网友对Imelda & the Goblin King的评论

非常棒！比预想的快多了！好喜欢这个插画作者！

非常美！！！画家的功力很深啊

This book has quickly become a family and classroom favorite! The illustrations are delightful, the story sweet, and both my teenage children and 5 year old students love it.

Great book!!

The thing about picture books, to me, is that you don't often find a book in which both the text and the drawings work. Once you add fairies, goblins and a fairytale plot, well the odds really start to head underwater. That's not the case here; it all works, with a consistent and engaging tone to the storytelling and vivid inviting illustrations.

If you look closely at the cover and any sample pages you might have available to you, you'll see right off that we aren't in Maxfield Parrish land or some other oddly unsettling Victorian fairies-in-the-garden world. Briony Smith's fairies come in all shapes, styles, colors, genders and hairstyles. Most of them have human form, but I definitely saw a blue Martian fairy guy, and a couple of them looked like they were made from mismatched parts. The goblins were all green, sharp toothed, pointed nosed nasties, which worked well. So, right off the bat we have an edgy and idiosyncratic approach to the drawings.

The main characters are well conceived and presented. Our heroine Imelda is the essence of virtue, steadfastness and sly cunning in the service of good. She looks like every young girl heroine should look, and I would expect her to attract every little reader's sympathy. The Fairy Queen is a pink-cheeked virtuous Earth Mother who actually feels a bit regal. And the Goblin King? He's toothy and clawed and dangerous looking, and if truth be told, a little scary. He might actually unnerve your littlest readers, so be forewarned.

But get this. Putting aside the pictures, the story is well told. The text is direct and straightforward. No words are wasted and the narrative has tremendous momentum. The tone is always consistent; by that I mean we don't switch from dreamy to wordy to cryptic to childish. In this telling, the story is crisp and clear, the bullying Goblin King's comeuppance is a result of his own greed and is measured and fair, and the moral and the ending are satisfying. The book isn't preachy, but there are lessons here, and they aren't weird or confused. (As an extra treat, there are a few sly little jokes hidden here and there for Mom and Dad's amusement, or for pointing out to little readers.)

So, whether you want a book that's pretty and fun to look at or a story that's gripping and a little bit scary, or a whole book that combines the best of both, this strikes me as a very nice possibility.

(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-73-days Adobe ecopy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

First I should note that the preschooler I was reading to was given a stack of about eight books to choose from, and this is the one she picked. The illustrations are bright, complex, detailed, and adorable. There are about three sentences on each page, and the type is clear enough and large enough so early readers can pick out words. There's enough going on in the pictures that children who dont read yet can still describe what's happening. The story is fairly simple, Imelda loves playing with the fairies in the forest and all is well until the goblin king, a nasty, rude bully, descends on their peaceful enclave. They try being nice to him to see if he will respond in kind, and not only does he behave horribly, he steals away the fairy queen as well. He gets his come-uppance when the fairies turn him into a worm....or rather, allow him to turn HIMSELF into a worm. If he'd been nice, they'd have served him one slice of the harmless portion of the pie. But no, he just grabs the whole thing and devours it....and half of it is made from turn-you-into-a-worm berries. With the goblin king vanquished, the goblins over whom he reigns rejoice, and join the fairy community to live, presumably, happily ever after.

Loved the story, the illustrations, and the message---try first to be kind, but if that doesn't work, sometimes a confrontation is necessary.

Gorgeous paintings illustrate this original fairy tale from British author Briony May Smith. What a delightful tale about fairies and goblins, frolicking in the forest and feasting upon sweets. The fairies must come up with a way to rescue their queen from the bully goblin king and good triumphs over evil with no lessons learnt or pushy moral, simply jolly good fun! Breathtaking art!

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