The Wanderer

Wonderfully strange and strangely wonderful, Peter Van Den Ende’s Wanderer is an epic dream captured in superbly meticulous detail. -Shaun Tan

As with Shaun Tan’s The Arrival,
it gives us collective goosebumps to introduce the singular talent and
imagination of Peter Van Den Ende to North America. Without a word, and
with Escher-like precision, van den Ende presents one little paper
boat’s journey across the ocean, past reefs and between icebergs,
through schools of fish, swaying water plants, and terrifying sea
monsters. The little boat is all alone, and while its aloneness gives it
the chance to wonder at the fairy-tale world above and below the waves
uninterrupted, that also means it must save itself when it storms. And
so it does. We hope that readers young and old will find the strength
and inspiration that we did in this quietly powerful story about
growing, learning, and life’s ups and downs.