The Forest by Riccardo Bozzi, Violeta Lopiz and Valerio Vidali

*Selected as one of the ten New York Times and New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s books of 2018

A lyrical book about the adventure of life, The Forest is also a magnificent visual work, both painterly and a technical feat of paper engineering. Here, sensory experience and the textures of the material world are rendered through die-cuts, embossing, cutouts, and two gatefolds. A beautifully considered work.