Technical specs
Portuguese title: O mundo ao contrário
32 pages / 220 x 260 mm
ISBN: 9789898145642 / RRP: 13,50€
1st edition: March 2015
@Rights owned by Jacob & Stuart.
The world upside down
(Portuguese edition)
In this world
mice chase cats,
hares hunt hunters,
cars fly through the skies
aeroplanes float on the sea,
penguins live in the tropical jungle
and crocodiles in the icy polar waters!
In this most original of picture books, ATAK deconstructs the world we live in to make us think about the concepts of right and wrong. This book calls into question the order of things, and is full of hilarious details that children (and many adults too) will love.
Technical specs
Portuguese title: O mundo ao contrário
32 pages / 220 x 260 mm
ISBN: 9789898145642 / RRP: 13,50€
1st edition: March 2015
@Rights owned by Jacob & Stuart.
Awards and recognitions
Selected — BD Amadora Award 2015: Best Children’s Book Illustration by a foreign author
Selected — “100 Outstanding Picturebooks” (dPICTUS), Frankfurt Book Fair (2019, 2020)
What they say
A visual adventure of epic proportions which is somewhere between Where’s Wally? and a riddle, throwing a pertinent question up in the air: what’s right and wrong, after all?
Pedro Miguel Silva, Deus me Livro, 04/05/2015
This search for a different perspective – for a different narrative and enumerative approach – has been a constant feature, and this picture book, with its original aesthetic for the Planeta catalogue, confirms and expands this tendency.
Andreia Brites, Blimunda magazine, May 2015