The tale of a thousand faces
Chiri is a fun-loving super cook looking for fresh adventures and ingredients, but her love of exploration has landed her in some serious magical trouble and she's going to need all the help she can get to find home again. Chiri and best friend Dai live in an orphanage right next to the deepest, dar...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Flying Eye Books,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Sánchez, Carlos (Comic book artist) Rune ;
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| Summary: | Chiri is a fun-loving super cook looking for fresh adventures and ingredients, but her love of exploration has landed her in some serious magical trouble and she's going to need all the help she can get to find home again. Chiri and best friend Dai live in an orphanage right next to the deepest, darkest forest. On a scavenging mission to find some amazing new ingredients for her many culinary experiments, Chiri plunges both her and her best friend into the secret kingdom of Puddin', a secret place plagued by the Thousand Faces Monster and inhabited by all sorts of magical people and critters. Befriending witches, bards, ogres and sorcerers, can our two protagonists make it home and more importantly, can they evade the darkness that has awoken on their arrival? |
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| Physical Description: | 155 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781838741211 1838741216 |
| Author Notes: | Carlos Sánchez grew up, with a pencil in his hand, in Barcelona. When he was very young a comic fell into his hand and that changed his life forever. He studied Design in EINA, and a master in Creative Illustration in Bau. He loves to draw, read comics, eat cereal and play videogames. Nowadays, he works as a designer, illustrator and comic artist in Barcelona. In 2025, his debut title, Rune: The Tale of a Thousand Faces, became the first graphic novel to win a Waterstones Children's Book Prize category award in the history of the prize. |
