Text and illustration: Stephen Vuillemin.
Publisher: Albin Michel Jeunesse, collection Ronces
One day, while watching cartoons, a little girl encounters a genie in the TV set. The cartoon character starts granting all of her wishes: having a car, delicious meat cooked to perfection, dinosaur costumes, a river just outside the house... Little does she know, all of these seemingly free goods are harvested from another place.
"Stephen Vuillemin’s drawings are hypnotic; the colors, the shapes, the outline, each page is a surprise that we gaze at for a long time before plunging into the wacky story straight out of a child’s imagination. A parable about our dellusions of abundance."
Marie Claire France