Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my twelve-year-old life Joakim Drescher The third volume in the

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Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my twelve-year-old life Joakim Drescher The third volume in theBy Riad Sattouf. Published by Pushkin Press. Softcover, 56 pages, Colour, 2021. Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friends daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, about school, her friends, her hopes, dreams and fears, and then he works it up into a comic strip. This book consists of 52 of those strips, telling between them the story of a year in the life of this sharp, spirited and hilarious child. The result