BRILLIANT. de Doyle, Roddy - (2015)

New York:: Amulet Books / Abrams,, (2015). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a small peeled spot on back cover of dj from sticker removal.). First US printing. A book for children by this Booker award-winning novelist and illustrated by Emily Hughes. "The Black Dog of Depression has descended over the adults of Dublin. Uncles are losing their businesses, dads wont get out of bed, mothers no longer smile at their children. Siblings Raymond and Gloria have had enough and set out one night with one goal in mind: to stop the Black Dog, whatever it takes. In a chase through the streets and parks and beaches of Dublin, the children run after the Black Dog, and soon dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of kids join in their fight. They discover they have one weapon against the Black Dog. The weapon is a word: 'brilliant'." 183 pp.