Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my eleven-year-old life Morgan O'Regan Artist: Chris Samnee

Artist: Chris Samnee

darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning

and the beauty of not caring about your appearance as much as you did when you were younger

kid think-tanks

notions of self and

Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my eleven-year-old life Morgan O'Regan Artist: Chris SamneeBy Riad Sattouf. Published by Pushkin Press. Softcover, 56 pages, Colour, 2021. Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friends daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, about school, her friends, her hopes, dreams and fears, and then he works it up into a comic strip. This book consists of 52 of those strips, telling between them the story of a year in the life of this sharp, spirited and funny child. The result is a