Alexis Deacon Books

The highly-anticipated third instalment of Alexis Deacon's acclaimed Geis series.

The Great Chief Matarka has died, and in accordance with her last will and testament, a contest will be held to announce her successor. From all over her realm, figures of great influence--leaders of the military, the church, and industry--have come to participate in the tests that are to be conducted to name the heir to Matarka's chiefdom. And so begins a sprawling, high-stakes adventure. Some of the participants are willing and eager to succeed, while others want no part of it but their very lives are on the line; this creates some engrossing internal conflict even as relationships and alliances are tested

The creative team behind I Am Henry Finch offers a picture book Plato for little ones, as Ergo the chick, from inside her egg, contemplates the world--and her place in it.Ergo wakes up and sets off to explore the world. The first things she discovers are her toes. Wiggle, wiggle. Then she finds her wings. Flap, flap. Then her beak. And her legs. She has discovered everything! I am the world and the world is me, she thinks. Until she considers the wall around her. Is that part of her, too? And is that noise from beyond the wall . . . something else? At once humorous and inspirational, this lighthearted foray by Alexis Deacon and Viviane Schwarz is for dreamers and philosophers, the foolish and the enlightened--a picture book experience told with simplicity and style.

As the great chief matriarch lay dying, she gave one final decree: Upon her death there would be a contest. Having no heir of her own blood she called on the Gods. Let fate decide the one truly worthy to rule in her place. The rich, the strong, the wise, the powerful; many put forward their names in hope of being chosen. But when the night came . . . only fifty souls alone were summoned.Book one in gripping action, supernatural, and historical fantasy graphic novel trilogy where souls battle in a contest to become the ruler of an island.Alexis Deacon graduated in 2001 with a first class honors degree in illustration from the University of Brighton. Before graduating he was awarded the Burt Brill and Cardens award for the second best degree show at his university. The urge to draw has been with Alexis as long as he can remember. "I've probably drawn compulsively since the age of three or four." Whenever he got bored playing with a particular toy as a child, rather than put it down and pick up something else as most kids would do, he'd put the toy down and pick up a sketchbook to carry the game on through pictures on paper. He is best known for his children's picture books.

Kleine Hamster leben in kleinen gemütlichen Höhlen. Aber was ist, wenn die Höhle eines Tages einfach zu eng wird? Dann müssen die kleinen Hamster hinaus in die große Welt. Oder besser gesagt, in die Welt, die die Hamster für die große Welt halten. Denn eigentlich wohnen sie auf einem sehr übersichtlichen Schrottplatz. Doch für die Hamster ist eine Pfütze ein Meer, ein Sandhaufen eine Wüste und ein Tisch ein Berg. Gemeinsam stellen sie sich den Gefahren und schaffen es sogar, unerschrocken eine Bestie in die Flucht zu schlagen. Am Ende wagen sie den Schritt über den Rand ihrer Hamsterwelt hinaus und erkennen: Dahinter wartet ein noch viel schöneres Zuhause, als sie es sich jemals vorstellen konnten.