SPECIAL MENTION
Des trucs comme ci, des trucs comme ça
Text and illustrations by Bernadette Gervais
Éditions des Grandes Personnes, France, 2021
What the jury said:
“On large-format pages, this book presents a gallery of miscellaneous objects, illustrated in a realistic style, organized into logical and poetic categories by a text of simple phrases and titles. The illustrations reveal and show kinships, memberships and similarities that are by no means obvious. Page after page, as if on a large map, the book invites us to seek out links and relationships between distant regions, and to have fun inventing and discovering connections and analogies. The book is like a never predictable game, and hugely rewarding for it.”