<DIV><p>"[Hilda's world] is . . . a glorious, exciting if also rather menacing place?one children will be eager to enter. It's also visually arresting: exuberant and lively and faintly Miyazakian."?<I>The New York Times</I></p><p>Hilda is sat in her tent, dwarfed by volumes of the <I>Greater Fjords Wildlife Chronicles</I> with a flashlight and her restless companion Twig, but Hilda's not in the fjords and it isn't raining. Hilda's pitched a tent in her room and it's been days since she's been out.</p><p>In Hilda's new adventure, she meets the Nisse: a mischievous but charismatic bunch of misfits who occupy a world beside?but also somehow within?our own, and where the rules of physics don't quite match up. Meanwhile, on the streets of Trolberg, a dark specter looms . . .</p><ul><li>Prize-winning author whose previous graphic novel was in <I>Publishers Weekly</I>'s Top 25 Children's Picture Books of 2012</li><li><I>Hilda and the Black Hound</I> is the fourth installment in the award-winning Hildafolk series</li><li>Other titles in the series are consistently popular in both children's and comic book categories</li></ul><p><B>Luke Pearson</B> is one of the leading talents of the international comics scene. He was the winner of the Young People's Comic category at the British Comic Award (2012) and was shortlisted in the Eisner Award's Best Publication for Kids and Best Writer/Artist categories (2013).</p><br></DIV>