A review by gordiedev
The Forest by Ricardo Bozzi

4.0

The Forest a collaborate book by Riccardo Bozzi, Violeta Lopiz, and Valerio Vidali, is not so much an actual "children's illustrated story" as it is a metaphorically poetic work of art in book form, better suited to adults. As a beautifully crafted object, the book itself is filled with lovely illustrations combined with plain white embossed pages, perforated with holes large enough to give the appreciator a glimpse forward to contents on a page in a future experience. About a third of the way through the text, it becomes clear that this eponymous forest is a mephor for life, and that the cyclical quality of life is artistically expressed in the crafting of the book. As with life, sometime before the end, you actually say about your experience, "Oh, wow!"