Blob: The Ugliest Animal in the World [Hardcover]

Blob the fish is excited. He's just won the ugliest animal in the world contest! But the popularity and fame that accompany Blob's win soon go to his head. And the loneliness of his new title goes to his heart. And of course, fame never lasts forever.

Blob the fish is excited. He's just won the ugliest animal in the world contest! An irreverent and insightful modern fable about beauty, ugliness, the paths to acceptance, and how admiration hijacks our sense of self. ... The illustrations by Tallec lend the humorous story a lovely dimension of tenderness. Blob comes alive as a sensitive creature of contradictionsfull of determination yet easily given to dejection, a living fable of ego and insecurity, easy to fault but also easy to love. ... Under Tallecs subtle brush, we see a difficult realization dawn on Blobprivilege is bestowed largely by chance and little of actual substance separates the most fortunate from the least fortunate. There is something charmingly subversive about the very premise, as paradoxical as the idea of trying to fail at failure. There is also something profound in the questions it raises about our civilizational fascination with beauty and its counterpointwhat does it really mean to be ugly... Brain Pickings
An insightful tale about beauty and self worth. The illustrations are incredible with personality and humor oozing from the pages. The Reading Ninja