Music depresses me.
Dancing distresses me.
Everything turns out wrong.
That’s why, the whole day long,
I feel so gloomy.
Ludwig Bechstein
Inspired by Ludwig Bechstein’s nineteenth-century poem, acclaimed illustrator Axel Scheffler has created a set of delightfully dark depictions of misanthropic misery. Julia Donaldson, Axel’s collaborator on The Gruffalo, has penned a wry, witty new translation of the original German. The result is a triumph of negativity, in the macabre yet merry spirit of the late great Edward Gorey.
The Gloomster is a quirky little book that is ideal as a present for that grumpy old man or woman in your life!
Faber - $24.99
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