Otzbell and the Elephant

The landowner Otzbell and the white elephant appearing at his workplace. Otzbell squeals the elephant and makes him work. At first, the white elephant enjoyed working, but gradually became exhausted. One night, I tweeted, "It's painful, Santa Maria."
A companion elephant rushes towards him to save the white elephant, who is being hurt by human desires...

The powerful touch and color use make it seem like the elephant's emotions flood the screen. The scene of elephants rushing towards us at the climax is spectacular.

【profile】
Illustration: Arai Ryoji
Born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1956. Graduated from the Department of Arts, Faculty of Art, Nihon University.
In 1991, he made his picture book debut with "Yukuri and JoJoni" (Horupu Publishing).
He won the Japan Picture Book Award for "Le Franc Re Franc" (Petit Gra Publishing), the Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award for "I'm going to open my dog ​​because I'm going to come to the morning" (Kaiseisha), and the Japan Picture Book Award for "Today is Sorani Maruitsuki", and the Japan Picture Book Award for "Bologna Children's Book Exhibition Special Award, the Shogakukan Children's Publishing Culture Award and the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for "Picture Book Award." In 2005, he was the first Japanese person to receive the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Literary Award.
His major picture books include "Attacking the Bus," "Sousse and Nernell," and "Happi-san" (all from Kaiseisha), "Kyotohi" (BL Publishing), "The Beginning of the Beginning" (Bronze Shinsha), "Is it the Beginning of the Picture Book" (all from Kodansha), and "Uchieta Egg" (East Press). In 2006, he won the Excellence Award in the Animation category of the Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival for "Porta, Country of Skima." He has been active in many fields, releasing the music CD "Where, where, when, how."

●Art materials used: oil pastel, colored pencils, pencils/paper: watercolor paper (Arche)

[Published Date] October 17, 2007