I Love You Blue

　　When Jonas the lighthouse-keeper is rescued from the stormy sea by a whale, they become friends. But soon Blue the whale is in great danger too, and now he needs help from Jonas...

　　This touching love story from world-renowned picture book creator, Barroux, beautifully highlights the urgency of saving our whales and our oceans.

Barroux has won many international honours, including the 2005 Prix Enfantasie and the 2015 Prix Médecins Sans Frontières in 2015. Born in Paris, he grew up in Morocco and has also lived in Canada and New York. As well as I Love You, Blue, he is illustrator of Hollis Kurman’s Hello: A Counting Book of Kindnesses (2020) and Counting in Green (2023), also published by Otter-Barry Books. He now lives in Paris.