Book Description
for Hicotea by Lorena Alvarez
From The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
On a field trip to the wetlands, Catholic school student Sandy tumbles into a turtle's shell and through magical new dimensions of the natural world. Along the way, Sandy discovers that the more we explore, the more there is to see and the bigger the world becomes. Complex and unconventional panel layouts feature Alvarez's lush, radiant illustrations, depicting real and imagined plant and animal life that seems to change and grow before our eyes. This is the second instalment in the Nightlights series.
Author is from Columbia.
England. Originally published in England as Hicotea: A Nightlights Story by Nowbrow in 2019.
© USBBY, 2022. Used with permission.