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Description
(Short description)
A heartwarming fictional story of why Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower accompanied by evocative illustrations.
(Text)
Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, yet no one knows the love story that led to its construction. Author Alice Brière-Haquet and illustrator Csil have pooled their creative talents to tell this touching story about overcoming hardship with clever invention fueled by love. Mr. and Mrs. Eiffel are a happy couple enjoying living in the most romantic city in the world, Paris. Until one day, Mrs. Eiffel begins to feel desperately unwell. The experts are unanimous: the only thing that can save her is fresh air. Her husband, a bright engineer, decides he will take matters into his own hands and build a tower that will reach the clouds in an attempt to restore her health.
Csil's poetically minimal illustrations in black, white, and pink are incredibly evocative, and Alice Brière-Haquet's words are a delight to read aloud.
(Review)
New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2015.
"The artwork and text combine to create a delightful fairy tale . . . Pure joie de vivre."
-Kirkus
"Csil's intricate, spidery drawings are the work's great charm . . . [E]ach spread has its own complex eccentricity."
-Publisher's Weekly
(Author portrait)
Alice Brière-Haquet is an avid reader who was born in a small town in Normandy and has three children. After her studies she began writing and has now published books that have been translated into 16 languages. Csil is a French illustrator. After studying visual communication and obtaining a Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique (DNSEP), a postgraduate degree in the visual arts, she now works as an art director at a communications agency and creates images for various children's publications.
