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A review by lindsayb
Sharaz-De: Tales from the Arabian Nights by Sergio Toppi
5.0
When I was a kid, I used to "sneak" into my mom's library and spend hours looking through Faeries, enthralled with the illustrations of the pretty faeries, the folklore, and the terrifying nasty ones. I say sneak, not because my mother didn't allow me near her books, but because the illustrations and descriptions were explicit--revealing the dangerous side of the fairy tale/folktale world with which I was unaware, having kept mostly to Disney. If I ever have kids, I want this to be their Faeries book.
A long time ago, I started to read The Arabian Nights, but fell away for some reason or another. Clearly, after reading this, I need to get back to it. And I need to check out more Toppi, but seeing as he's Italian and his work isn't published all that extensively in America (much less English), this feels like an uphill battle. I'm hooked though. I don't often buy books anymore, especially before reading them, but I'm so glad I did so with Sharaz-De...I'm fairly covetous of it already.
A long time ago, I started to read The Arabian Nights, but fell away for some reason or another. Clearly, after reading this, I need to get back to it. And I need to check out more Toppi, but seeing as he's Italian and his work isn't published all that extensively in America (much less English), this feels like an uphill battle. I'm hooked though. I don't often buy books anymore, especially before reading them, but I'm so glad I did so with Sharaz-De...I'm fairly covetous of it already.