The Visitor
Age 3+
Picture Storybooks
A story about friendship and shyness, full of light and colour, that plays out in a mini theatre. A book for kids and all ages.
Elise was frightened—of spiders, people, even trees. So she never went out, night or day.
One day a strange thing flies in through the window and lands at her feet. And then there comes a knock at the door. Elise has a visitor who will change everything.
This is a gentle, sympathetic story about a child who unwittingly brings light and colour—literally—into a lonely person’s life.
Creators
Antje Damm is a celebrated children’s writer and illustrator. Born in 1965 in Wiesbaden, Germany, she now lives with her husband and four children near Giessen. She hasworked as an architect and has written and illustrated over a dozen books for children.
Reviews
an explosion of color, light and life.
The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books 2018
The miniature sepia scenes of her house, filled with cardboard furniture, are gradually brought to life by washes of colour as her small visitor begins to dispel Elise’s anxious loneliness.
The Guardian, Best New Picture Books