On the edge
Nina Neuray

A freewheeling, inventive picture book about how Men share space with other living beings.

Cold has emptied the park of walkers. Soon, wild animals will flood the space: ducklings swimming in the pool, boars washing in the footbath… Fall and Winter go by peacefully but when Spring comes, everything changes: with loud sounds of lawnmowers and vacuums, people are here, readying their comeback. Scared, the animals scuttle off. All except the sleeping bear, who winds up sowing panic and dividing the humans: should they cage him or help him?

In addition to the necessary reflection carried by this story, debut author Nina Neuray offers the reader many cheerful details to observe and a gratifying angle: what do animals do when humans are not there?

Nina Neuray
The author and illustrator

Nina Neuray is a graduate from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels. A la lisière, her first picture book as an author and illustrator, was part of the 2021 Dpictus “Unpublished Picturebook Showcase” and obtained the second place. She also illustrated Les Polis Topilins by Élisa Sartori (Thierry Magnier). She lives in Brussels.