The Tree House
Marije Tolman & Ronald Tolman
Trim size: : 24,8 x 33,4 cm | 32 pages
Pure picture-book magic.
A polar bear rides a whale to a tree rising out of the water. At the top of the tree is a tree house. He’s joined by a brown bear in a boat. The bears find that the tree house is the perfect place to read. When the water recedes, they are joined by flamingos, panda bears, and other animals that come by land and air. The tree house is a place of wonder, where a brown bear catches snowflakes in a butterfly net.
Artists Marije Tolman and her father, Ronald Tolman, bring their unique vision to this astonishing wordless picture book, in which each spread is a work of art.
Rights sold:
Brazil
Denmark
English Worldwide
Italy
Japan
Qatar
Thailand
China
Korea
Rights sold:
Brazil
Denmark
English Worldwide
Italy
Japan
Qatar
Thailand
China
Korea
The Tree House
Picture books
Quotes from the press
‘The Tree House is a wise, clear, even poetic, example of how an established topos of the collective imagination may be revisited with a fresh eye to reveal a continued relevance to modern times. … The book’s message is not declaimed, but is conveyed quietly. It pleads for an enlightened ecological stance in which an intense awareness that we are part of nature does not forego our need for
elegance and intellectual enquiry.’
– Jury of the Ragazzi Award
Awards
Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2010
About the author
Marije Tolman (1976) graduated in Graphic and Typographic Design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. She studied Illustration and design at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. The daughter of an artist, Marije has an inbred eye for colour, for beauty, for subtlety. She knows how to paint the delicate detail without losing the overall perspective.
About the illustrator
Ronald Tolman (Amsterdam 1948) is a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. He is inspired by everyday reality, but also by illustrious predecessors. Het looks for lines that interconnect between past, present and future. The doings of the “human species” run like a thread through his oeuvre.
