Alma Falls Awake With Her Friend
Watercolors by Julia Lunk
Story by Sarah Warner
10.50 x 8.50 in.; Hardcover; 24 pp
Publication Date: September 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9802245-5-9
$14.95
Each night Alma falls awake into her dreams. Tonight she rediscovers a long lost and cherished friend who happens to be a big black bird—and happens to be inside an egg, on her head! Her dream begins deep in the forest where small birds quietly lay a large, warm egg on the hard knot at the top of her head. The large, warm egg wiggles and jiggles atop her head, makes her tall and powerful, and then, cracks open. Seeing her friend suddenly there before her, she realizes how much she missed him. Their time together is brief, but they manage to share so much. For Alma and her friend, it is a night to remember.
Julia Lunk was born in rural Hungary. After high school, Lunk followed the call of her art and left the rural countryside for Budapest where she studied for five years at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. There she began studying graphic design, but then received a master's degree in printmaking. Her love for painting emerged during university while participating yearly in plein air symposiums in the countryside. Exhibited internationally since 1993, her works are inspired by dreams, faraway places, and plants—life's little miracles. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Sarah Warner wrote Alma's story after seeing an exhibit of Julia Lunk's paintings. Deeply inspired by the exhibit, she wanted to bring to life some key characters and motifs she saw throughout Lunk's artwork. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she runs a literary agency and lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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