Alma and the Beast by Esmé Shapiro
Alma and the Beast by Esmé Shapiro
Alma and the Beast by Esmé Shapiro
Alma and the Beast by Esmé Shapiro
Alma and the Beast by Esmé Shapiro
Alma and the Beast by Esmé Shapiro

Alma and the Beast by Esmé Shapiro

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Ages: 3–7 years

Alma's beautiful, hairy world is turned upside down by the arrival of a stranger. From the utterly original imagination of the author-illustrator of Ooko comes a story about celebrating differences and making new friends. For fans of Where the Wild Things Are and Wild.

Alma lives happily in her hairy world, where she can braid the trees, comb the grass, pet the roof and feed her plumpooshkie butterfly. Until one day . . . a hairless, button-nosed beast appears in the garden! At first Alma is scared but when she realizes the beast is lost and misses her hairless home, Alma offers to help her find her way back. As the two take a fantastical journey through the red-headed woods and the bearded mushroom glen to the beast's bald abode, they discover that they are much more alike than different.

This quirky and charming story about friendship, empathy and perspective invites readers into a surreal, fantastical world that evokes Alice in Wonderland, Where the Wild Things Are and The Lorax.

Esmé Shapiro was born in Los Angeles, California. most of her childhood was spent roaming around the dry brush and blossomed succulents in Laurel Canyon. In 2010, she ventured east to attend the Rhode Island school of design in Providence, Rhode Island. She now splits her time between the Hudson Valley and New York City. Her favorite place to paint is in her studio at her farm house in the Catskills, where she surrounds herself with many animals and flowers. She lives with her husband, Daniel Kaufman, who is a filmmaker, and their two scruffy dogs, Chebini and Olympia. She will never say no to a bagel.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Esmé is a past recipient of both the Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship and the SILA West 53 Gold Award-Phillip Hayes Scholarship. She has exhibited at The Society of Illustrators and her work has been featured in Taproot, Quill and Quire, and Plansponsor Magazines. Her first book, OOKO, was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award and was # 1 on the National Post Best Seller's List.

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Esmé Shapiro

Esmé was born in Los Angeles, California. most of her childhood was spent roaming around the dry brush and blossomed succulents in Laurel Canyon. In 2010, she ventured east to attend the Rhode Island school of design in Providence, Rhode Island. She now splits her time between the Hudson Valley and New York City. Her favorite place to paint is in her studio at her farm house in the Catskills, where she surrounds herself with many animals and flowers. She lives with her husband, Daniel Kaufman, who is a filmmaker, and their two scruffy dogs, Chebini and Olympia. She will never say no to a bagel.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Esmé is a past recipient of both the Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship and the SILA West 53 Gold Award-Phillip Hayes Scholarship. She has exhibited at The Society of Illustrators and her work has been featured in Taproot, Quill and Quire, and Plansponsor Magazines. Her first book, OOKO, was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award and was # 1 on the National Post Best Seller's List.

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