Children's Book - THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY

This is the story of Robin and Ben, two great rascals. Robin is fearless, while Ben is the type to cheat his world from behind. One leaves his household to become a pirate and fight battle on all the seas of the globe. The other stays at home, where he leads the comfortable existence of an apothecary, and accumulates a nice little nest egg. Their reunion holds a major surprise for the reader… The Pirate and the Apothecary is a text by Stevenson that had never been translated into French. This text, written during a stay in Switzerland, is part of the ‘Moral Emblems’. It is the German artist Henning Wagenbreth, well known in the world of graphic design and professor at the School of Fine Arts in Berlin, who chose to illustrate and translate this text. Its graphic and colorful illustrations allow you to discover this tale in verse and its paradoxical moral where the alleged villain ends up doing justice. A wonderful album to read jubilantly. Author: HENNING WAGENBRETH, TEXT BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON