What the Jury said: Friendship between two men – a French airman and an American Indian – whose dreams and aspirations are closer than the geographical distance that separates them. For both, the blue desert of the ocean and the vast blue of the sky signify their common dream: to fly. A recurrent theme in children’s literature, aviation is here given a new narrative that weaves together real events in the story of man’s attempts to fly with a poetic homage to human affinity. While Europe, aptly overshadowed in black, is still enveloped in the First World War, America is depicted in traditional Native American colours. The illustrations are an arresting narrative in themselves, combining Bauhaus geometries with unexpected colour schemes and a meticulous array of textures that although reminiscent of Modernism, create their own visual universe: a world of aeroplanes and wild horses, of national frontiers that lie like scars on the land, but also of men who meet and recognize their mutual dreams without having to say a word.