Akissi 2: More Tales of Mischief
Akissi is back! With more stories of silliness and choas.
Join her as she starts a new term at school and tackles scary teachers, drinks a potion from a witch doctor and meets her nemesis. Akissi is a true adventurer, full of mischief. There's never a dull moment when she's around!
Akissi will delight young readers with its cheeky protagonist as well as offer an interesting perspective on life in a West African village
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Creators
Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 1971. Following the tremendous success of her comics Aya of Yop City, Marguerite Abouet now dedicates all of her time to writing. Akissi is based on her own childhood.
Mathieu Sapin was born in Dijon, France, in 1974. He studied in l’Ecole supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg before becoming a renowned illustrator for many children’s magazines and publishers in France.
Reviews
The best word I can use to describe the Akissi stories is simply “joyous”. Ultimately this is a book that doesn’t need critical dissection; it needs to be lived not analysed, absorbed not over-thought. A standout celebration of childhood.
Broken Frontier
Once again Marguerite Abouet & Mathieu Sapin bring Africa to vivid, vibrant life in a way that both appals the sensibilities (seriously Akissi, stop borrowing people’s babies without their permission to play with!) and amuses uproariously in equal amounts.
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The autobiographical element from Abouet is crucial in that it offers a genuine quality to the stories, and having lived the life allows them to forgo any sentimentality. Instead Abouet imbues the stories with a sense of adventure that should speak loudly to so many American children reading it, possibly facing a cloistered, overbooked day-to-day existence. Akissi’s life must be a dream come true.
John Seven, The Beat
