Free as a Bird

　　'One day Jonas the lighthouse keeper and his friend Blue the whale rescue a tired, bedraggled bird from the sea...a bird who has made a perilous journey from a far-off country, fleeing war and great danger.

　　This beautiful story of care, refuge and freedom is told and illustrated with compassion and empathy.

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.