Meet the author

Berenika Kołomycka.

Writer & illustrator · Poland · b. 1983

Award-winning Polish cartoonist whose near-wordless, watercolour Tiny Fox and Great Boar comics carry the very young from a first wary friendship all the way to a tender first encounter with loss.

Berenika Kołomycka is an award-winning Polish cartoonist and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, best known to young readers for Tiny Fox and Great Boar. Painted in loose, luminous watercolours with barely a word on the page, the series follows a small fox and the great boar who moves in beneath his apple tree as wary neighbours become inseparable friends, journeying from forest to seaside to wetland. Across There, Further and Dawn, Kołomycka lets the tiniest line beneath an eye carry worry, jealousy or joy, and gently guides the youngest children from a first prickly friendship all the way to a tender, unforgettable encounter with loss. An elegant stepping-stone from picture books to early comics, and a quietly profound read-aloud about how much easier life becomes when it is shared.