Nightlights - Rilegato

A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION

Readers will cheer [ ] The beings that inhabit Sandy’s nighttime world are simply delightful. The album size, cloth spine binding, and spot gloss on the cover are the icing on the cake of this beautiful graphic novel.
Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

Colombian illustrator Alvarez has achieved something special and unforgettable with her first authorial outing.
The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, STARRED REVIEW

[...] Alvarez's stunning, Miyazaki-like illustrations are jaw-dropping. [...] the sumptuous artwork, from the velvety palette to the invitingly rounded figures, is a pleasure to age at. Let's hope there's more where this came from.
Booklist

Nightlights is scary, strange and wondrous stuff, its terror heightened by its luminous, polychromatic beauty.
The Guardian

A sumptuously coloured, beautifully presented metaphor for the triumph of creativity and imagination in overcoming darkness and despair.
Broken Frontier

Nightlights is easily one of the most gorgeously illustrated and imaginative picture books I have ever read.
Kim Haddox, Amarillo Public Library

Nightlights is a stunning, richly-detailed ode to the power of creativity to triumph over loneliness and self-doubt. With gorgeous illustrations that evoke the fantastic imagination of Miyazaki, Gomez builds an enchanting story full of sylphs, school troubles, and one adorable, pigtailed heroine. LOVE!
Hannah DeCamp, Avid Bookshop

Mesmerizing, mystical, magnificent and everything I have come to expect and love from NoBrow from the epic illustrations to the definitively whimsical yet edgy story.
Jesica Sweedler DeHart, Wandering Bookseller

A young artist makes friends with a ghost, but at what price? This is the perfect graphic novel for fans of Miyazaki or Neil Gaiman's Coraline. Alvarez's art is spectacular, combining lush colors with a level of detail that readers will want to revisit again and again.
Cecilia Cackley, Hooray For Books!

Nightlights is a gorgeous parable by Lorena Alvarez. [ ] it is absolutely beautiful.
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Lorena Alvarez was born and raised in Bogotá, and studied Graphic Design and Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has illustrated for children books, independent publications, advertising and fashion magazines. Since 2008, she has been part of "La Procesión Puppet Club", an experimental puppetry group of illustrators and visual artists.