Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my twelve-year-old life Sophie Franz Whether the magic is mundane

Whether the magic is mundane or miraculous

2020 (originally published 1986)

satirical "articles"

Published by Hamish Hamilton

Chelsea Hodson

Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my twelve-year-old life Sophie Franz Whether the magic is mundaneBy 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 hilarious child. The result