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adoption
adventure
animal
animal story
animal trafficking
Author_Frank Pe
Author_Zidrou
beast
bond
broussaille
brussels
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child
comic
dog
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europe
exotic
friend
friendship
graphic novel
hopeful
leapord
little nemo in slumberland
magical realism
magnetic press
marsupilami
oni press
pet story
post WWII
postwar
stray
the adoption
WWII
zoo
Product details
- ISBN 9781962413596
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2026
- Publisher: Magnetic Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Captured in the heart of Palombia by Chahuta Indians and sold to exotic animal traffickers, a marsupilami lands in the port of Antwerp in the 1950s. Managing to escape, he arrives in the suburbs of Brussels and is taken in by François, a young boy who is a fan of animals and whose daily life is far from easy. François is picked on by the local kids, particularly because his father had been a German soldier, an unforgivable crime in those postwar years; a fact he and his mother cannot escape. Both are ostracized for their connection to past events. This sometimes dark but always hopeful adventure by renowned author Zidrou and celebrated gallery artist Frank Pe portrays a beautiful friendship between a boy and his beast. The authors pay a superb tribute to the fabulous animal created by Franquin in the series Spirou et Fantasio while denouncing the mistreatment and trafficking of exotic animals. A magnificent adventure whose heart is the extraordinary friendship that can unite a child with an animal.
