Kirkus Best Books of the Year
2022 · Picture Books for Starting Conversations
About This Book
A captivating tale of eerie places and mystical bargains, sumptuously illustrated by Kate Greenaway Medalist Levi PinfoldWashed clean in his pool, we fall under his rule . . . Away from what is, we all are now his. When a young girl and her older brothers step into the ghostly Paradise Sands hotel, they fall under the rule of the mysterious Teller. The girl makes a deal with the commanding creature to free them all from his haunting paradise—and let them return to their mother, white roses in hand. But can the girl, determined as she is, hold up her side of the bargain? A contemporary story with the feel of a classic fairy tale, Levi Pinfold's Paradise Sands is lush with enchanting illustrations, rendered in a muted palette with the artist's distinctive stylistic realism.
