The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse: Charlie Mackesy Hardcover – 10 Oct. 2019 by Charlie Mackesy
A book of hope for uncertain times.
Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons.
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online - perhaps you've seen them? They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They sometimes even appear on lamp posts and on cafe and bookshop windows. Perhaps you saw the boy and mole on the Comic Relief T-shirt, Love Wins?
Here, you will find them together in this book of Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all.
Product description
Pure Joy (London Evening Standard)
You will not be able to buy a more beautiful book for Christmas for somebody you love
A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart. (Richard Curtis)
Simply, the world needs Charlie's work right now. (Miranda Hart)
The world that I am required to inhabit is this one, but the world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has created. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
From the Back Cover
You will not be able to buy a more beautiful book for Christmas for somebody you love' Chris Evans A book of hope for uncertain times. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, hung on hospital walls and turned into tattoos. In Charlie's first book, you will find his most-loved illustrations and some new ones too. 'A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart' Richard Curtis
About the Author
Artist Charlie Mackesy has been a cartoonist for The Spectator and a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. He has collaborated with Richard Curtis for Comic Relief, and Nelson Mandela on a lithograph project, The Unity Series . His first exhibition for the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse was in London in November 2018. Charlie lives in South London with his dog.