An irreverent and insightful modern fable about beauty, ugliness, the paths to acceptance, and how admiration hijacks our sense of self. ... The illustrations by Tallec lend the humorous story a lovely dimension of tenderness. Blob comes alive as a sensitive creature of contradictions
full of determination yet easily given to dejection, a living fable of ego and insecurity, easy to ... Read morefault but also easy to love. ... Under Tallec's subtle brush, we see a difficult realization dawn on Blob
privilege is bestowed largely by chance and little of actual substance separates the most fortunate from the least fortunate. There is something charmingly subversive about the very premise, as paradoxical as the idea of trying to fail at failure. There is also something profound in the questions it raises about our civilizational fascination with beauty and its counterpoint
what does it really mean to be ugly...
Brain Pickings An insightful tale about beauty and self worth. The illustrations are incredible with personality and humor oozing from the pages.
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