This book, which I randomly pulled off the shelf at the library today, is nothing short of spectacular. It's no secret that I love French cartoonists....but I did not even know this 'David B.' fellow was French until I, ten pages in, decided to research him and see what else he has done. This book is beautiful, in every frame ; intricate drawings of demons and serpents, textiles, crowd scenes, lavish birds, skeleton armies, spiders....the list goes on an on, as do the nights in which Scheherazade is telling this string of stories. The composition, color and line work is consistently flawless and the story moves along at so cinematic of a pace that I fear I must re-read this JUST to look at the drawings again for longer. I highly recommend this book as it is a perfect snippet of 1,000 and one nights and is luminous, every page is a piece on its own. The pages where Scheherazade and the king are laying in bed, framing a scene from the story between them are especially clever.