Alsace-born Tomi Ungerer, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature, was called "a spectacular graphic genius" by the illustrious Maurice Sendak. Phaidon has outdone itself with this lovingly designed, slip-cased single volume that includes eight of Ungerer's picture books: well-known favorites (The Three Robbers, Moon Man, Otto), recent works (Fog Island) and forgotten treasures (Zeralda's Ogre, Flix, The Hat and Emile), some out-of-print for decades. Fans will also get the inside scoop on several of his unforgettable books via an exclusive interview, an author letter, photographs and many "making of" storyboards and drawings, including some fabulous pencil sketches on the endpapers. Ungerer's picture books are splendidly quirky explorations of human nature and also, as he says, often "campaign against social injustice, prejudice and war." A treasury indeed. --Karin Snelson, children's & YA editor, Shelf Awareness