The Oink Creature

Little elf Selfie and the five Gompies are taken by surprise when a thunderstorm hits the forest. After it dies down, they hear an unfamiliar sound: something keeps saying ‘oink’. The little blue animal with one ear and lilac eyes looks sad and lost. But they can’t make head or tail of its oinking language. With the help of the magic-working sisters Seraphin and Cherubin, the Oink Creature’s family ends up in the forest too, and they can all understand each other. Until the nasty Sistems kidnap the youngest member of the Oink family...

In dynamic coloured pencil, Inge Bogaerts brings Elly and Rikkert’s modern fairy tale to life. The fantasy leaps from the pages and the details in the drawings demand to be savoured. This cheerful adventure story, about fighting the soulless Sistems with music and joy, is full of magic and of comical chaos in which the reader becomes thoroughly immersed. A colourful fairy-tale book, it’s also an ode to stories, to nature and to the arts as an antidote to heartlessness.