Come Back Soon

by Daniel Schallau

It’s a long way from Elephant Island to Icetown,
but good friends will travel great distances to visit one another.
And so Elephant leaves home to see his penguin penpals—
Elephant has helped them build a hotel, and there will be a party
in his honor.

In Icetown, things don’t go as planned.
In fact, they don’t go smoothly at all.

But just like friends will travel far across the sea to be with one another,
good friends will also always help to make things right.

A story of friendship, a story of travel and global community, Come Back Soon will cheer anyone who has ever made a mistake and been forgiven.

Genres: Picture Books

44 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Daniel Schallau (1966- present) was born in Portland, Oregon, with a pencil in his hand. From a young age, he would lose himself in his doodles--once even missing a magnitude 5.0 earthquake because he was so busy drawing in the margins of the church program! His mother regularly carried pencil and paper in her purse, which he constantly asked to use. Despite this, he didn't start developing a drawing style of his own unil he was in College.

After working for various architecture firms in Portland, Daniel traveled far to the east-all the way to Tokyo, Japan where he teaches arts and craft and illustrates children's books and college text books.

Reviews

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

March 2018 - bizarre and wonderful and fantastically detailed. Ben was fascinated.

[Neil · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found elephant hard to believe as the protagonist, he's hardly the right kind of a beast for a travelling architect. His eating 27 bowls of sushi isn't true to character. It's virtually impossible that tailor Guin's penguin suit shop at the south pole would advertise elephant suits for only 15 clams, not in this economy. On a positive note, Bernie the Postwhale was remarkably sympathetic.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Detailed illustrations, unique story.