Yakari Book 8: Yakari and the White Fleec

Yakari Book 8: Yakari and the White Fleece, by Derib & Job, Cinebook

YAKARI IS a young children’s comic series about a native American Indian (or whatever the currently politically correct description is), written Job and drawn by Derib, both from Switzerland. In 2005 it won the Youth Prize for 7 – 8 Year Olds at Angoulême in France.

The series has had several foreign language editions published, and been adapted into animation for TV.

When Bold Crow goes beyond his tribe’s hunting grounds his lucky talisman is taken by an eagle swooping down who then takes it to its nest high up in the mountains, causing the warrior to fall ill, perhaps terminally.

Little Yakari’s totem, and spirit guide, is a golden eagle, and the lad is initially unsure if it is the same bird who has taken the talisman. It proves not to be, but Yakari decides it his duty to recover the stolen prize. Thus begins a journey to the top of the mountain, and a decision that must be made on reaching its summit.

Yakari, we find, can talk to animals, leading to some interesting stops along the way, chief among them meeting the mountain goats that the book takes its White Fleece name from – creatures that live so high up he has never come across them before.

Falling somewhere between a quest and light-hearted adventure for the young, it is a pleasant enough tale.

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