The Queen in the Cave

Driven by a dream and a yearning, Franca and her sisters set off on a journey that grows wilder and stranger with every page: enormous, bunny-faced snails, frogs puffing pink smoke out of pipes, a world that shrinks and expands at the same time. And when they finally reach the cave, what they find there is something none of them could have expected. Júlia Sardà's debut as author-illustrator is both a coming-of-age story and a fairytale with illustrations so kaleidoscopic and immersive that every spread feels like a world unto itself. The first book in a trilogy (companion to The Witch in the Tower) that does not need to be read in order.