THE THREE GOLDEN KEYS (SIGNED with Cat Drawing, FIRST PRINTING)

SIS, PETER, (SIGNED with small CAT drawing), Illustrated and Written by, Three-Time Caldecott Honor Winning Artist, Winner of Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012, and Golden Bear for Short Film 2000

ISBN 10: 0385472927 / ISBN 13: 9780385472920

Published by New York: Farrar Straus Girroux. First FSG Edition, 2001, First Printing, SIGNED, 2001

About this Item

SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Fabulous, Intricate artwork only SIS does. Pictorial DJ unclipped; SIGNED BY SIS with a drawing of a cat figure. Sís has also won INTERNATIONAL AWARDS: the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. He has also won the Grand Prix Toronto and the Cine Golden Eagle Award. In 2012, he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen award for illustration.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE THREE GOLDEN KEYS (SIGNED with Cat Drawing, FIRST PRINTING)
• Publisher: New York: Farrar Straus Girroux. First FSG Edition, 2001, First Printing, SIGNED
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385472927
• ISBN 13: 9780385472920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SIS, Peter, Award Winning Illustrator

About this title

Synopsis

In an autobiographical fable that echoes the author's exile from his native Czechoslovakia, a man returns to his childhood home in Prague only to find his old home barred with three locks and must find the golden keys that will let him in.

From the Back Cover

able range and imagination of Czech artist Peter Sis is known the world over through his animated films, paintings, and best-selling children's books such asKomodo!, The Dragons Are Singing, and Follow The Dream. Now, with The Three Golden Keys, he gives us his most heartfelt and autobiographical work to date: the reworking of three classic Czechoslovakian fairy tales into a haunting illustrated fable of his lost childhood in Prague that is also a deeply felt allegory of the reclamation of a Czech cultural identity after forty-five years of Communist rule. A man returns to his home in the ancient city of his childhood. Three large rusty locks bar his entry. He knows he must somehow find the three golden keys that will let him in. Suddenly a black cat leaps off the gate; seeming to invite him to follow. Together they search through Prague's monuments and landmarks. With each key they find, a different aspect of the city comes to life and recounts for