A unique, compelling standout." - Jesse Karp, Booklist "A loving homage to storytelling itself.Sewing her own sly humor, Greenberg deeply immerses readers in the themes and lessons of world mythology.Just as evocative is her art, which uses simple, childlike illustrations to channel the power of ancient cave paintings and archetypal images from our own imaginations. This graphic novel casts a spell like that of Scheherazade-when you sit down with it, prepare to stay until the last page." -Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child " The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is a delightful accordian of a book. "Greenberg speaks of storytellers, but she's a great storyteller hself, and it's easy to be pulled into the worlds that she writes, housed neatly by tight drawings in a style that is bright enough to bring these worlds to life, and detached enough to feel a little otherworldly." -Kate Beaton, author of Hark! A Vagrant Strange and wry and funny and beautifully drawn." -Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time "It's a book about many things-love, snow, God, poisoned sausages.but mostly it's a celebration of storytelling itself. One of Amazon's Top Ten Books of December 2013Ī Top Ten Graphic Novel of 2013, Booklist. One of National Public Radio's Great Reads of 2013
A great flood cleanses the world of life.One of Time's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2013 The building of an enormous tower earns the enmity of the gods. Greenberg's sprawling, sardonically funny mythscapes intersect Biblical tales at oblique angles: A jealous brother murders his gentle sibling. The story of this world's creation, for example, involves a proud, vindictive bird-headed god and his two humanlike children (who - in a nice touch - wear fake beaks tied around their heads to appease their vain father). Through a series of tales (many of which are told by the Nord man as he sets out into the wider world to seek his fortune as a traveling storyteller), we learn the nature of that force, and how these two improbable lovers came together in the first place. We meet a man of the frozen "Nord" as he falls in love with a South Pole woman, only to find that some mysterious force prevents them from ever coming into physical contact with one another. How?ĭespite its title, British writer and illustrator Isabel Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is not mere history, with its assiduous accounting of dusty facts, but is instead a compendium of funny, sad and surprisingly moving fables from the pre-history of a world that exists only in Greenberg's febrile imagination - one that bristles with capricious gods, feckless shamans, daring quests and, of course, doomed love. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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