Hekla and Laki: A Picture Book

A comforting, poetic picture book about the beauty and brutality of life and death, inspired by two Icelandic volcanoes, from award-winning creator Marine Schneider

“Achingly beautiful . . . These are dreams drawn from the subconscious, realized by gifted artists, suitable for study by children awake to the surreal and the sublime.” —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review

Carried in by a strong wind, a tiny creature named Hekla twirls delicately into a crater, falling at the feet—and, ver...