I apologize for not better researching this book. I got a letter from Amanda who happen to come across her review- and she explained a lot of my confusion:
hi! i accidentally found a review about me on your website http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/other/squirels-first
and… well, thank you for it but i feel i must tell you a couple of things. the book in question is not a comic book, it’s a catalogue for an exbihition. this is made clear on the gallery’s website you linked. i’m sorry they don’t have information in english, but, it’s not always assured in a non-english speaking country. plus, this is why i’m writing, i’m not a he, i’m a she. i don’t know who told you i would be a man but i hope you will correct the information on your website. thank you again, best,
amanda
I have no idea what this book is about. It’s very strange. A little boy puts on a squirrel shirt, finds a dead squirrel, drinks a bottle of something with a ghost, while looking through binoculars at someone’s wedding, etc, etc. Maybe the pages are out of order. They are loose pages folded in half into a square. There are eleven of them and a title page and bio of the artist, which is in Italian. The pages fit into a nice package about the size of a cd case. Two bright red cardboard pieces fold over each other to make the box. I picked up this book thinking it would be very designy and modern inside because of it’s box but the drawings inside are all pencil drawings. I like how weird they are and how confused I am trying to understand what’s going on. When I buy foreign books I usually try to buy a translated version or books without words-like this one. Amanda, the artist is Finnish, and a he. You can learn more about this book here by translating the text. And she seems to be part of a group of designers who work out of Bologna, called Canicola.
