So says Vera Brosgol, the award-winning graphic novelist and Caldecott Honor-winning author and illustrator, who explores the wonders of childhood imagination in her New York Times review of Wildflowers titled:
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About the comparison to Maurice Sendak, Liniers writes us: | |
"We all think we’re familiar with children’s play, from seeing it around us or remembering our own youth.
It becomes background noise: princesses, pirates, nothing special." | |
"But if we really listen, as the Argentine comics artist and picture book illustrator Ricardo Liniers Siri does, we can discover a surprising and sometimes scary world through which children move fearlessly,
just under our noses." | |
"Maurice Sendak did a masterly job capturing the untamed underbelly of childhood, most famously in “Where the Wild Things Are.” Adults are unsettled by his hero Max’s occasional violence and the genuinely dangerous creatures he conjures up — it’s not how we like to imagine our kids playing." | |
"But children recognize it; that’s what the world is like to them. Liniers’s lovely watercolor-and-ink artwork is packed with detail that kids can lose themselves in." | |
Available in both Spanish and English editions | |
