A heart for a heart of stone!

This album borrows from comic genres, distinguishing itself from the usual boxes (various sizes and carvings) and bubble: the poetic text (there are rhymes!) Approaches the tale story in the third person throughout. Each illustration is a painting in itself, rich details, dombrés, colors that make sense with the text. It is also thought inevitably universe of Tim Burton.
Quen of history is it? A boy born with a heart of stone: he will never know feelings. "In just ten years, he advanced hunched under the weight of a heart too much to bear" (p. 6). The same day a little girl was born in the heart dartichaut: "We never saw navait a happy child. She spent her time to fall in love "(p.10). But that suffering when she will meet the little boy at the heart of stone which by definition can not Laimer! While close pass a little boy at heart dor.

A story in both dark and light, as the illustrations and colors that are in the mirror, a tale about love and the pain of unrequited feelings of attention to the other and solitude: an album that will appeal to everyone, children as adults, a safe bet that lon reread sure.