Our Unruly List

• UNRULY BOOK 1 — Just over a year ago, we published the first Unruly book: The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It. The complexity of this story’s themes of womanhood, romantic relationship, and violence, along with its highly conceptual nature, catalyzed us into creating our Unruly imprint—an imprint we had considered launching for a long time because of our stance on picture book as medium.

• UNRULY BOOK 2 — Our second Unruly book is You Can’t Kill Snow White, from artist and illustrator extraordinaire Beatrice Alemagna, who is world-renowned for her children’s picture books. We are happy to say that this book just published, in October 2022, and we're looking forward to sharing it with you. Uncommonly, it's a book that started as a series of paintings—an experiment for Alemagna to see what she could create when freed from the constraints and responsibilities of making pictures for children.

• UNRULY BOOK 3 — The Book of Denial comes to us from Mexico. Its author Ricardo Chavez Castañeda was a precursor to the Crack movement of the 1990s, and has also spent his life writing for children. Here, he joins with graphic designer Alejandro Magallanes, who has been called Mexico’s Milton Glaser, to create a complex narrative of word and image. This is not simply an illustrated novel, where the images reflect the story, but one in which word and image work together to tell a powerful story that couldn’t be told otherwise. Our plan is to realize the publication of this book between March and September of 2023.

• UNRULY BOOK 4 — Told in gorgeous prose by Sara Stridsberg and illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna, We Go the Park is a lyrical exploration of freedom and play, originally published in Sweden.

• UNRULY BOOK 5 — A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in Our Beautiful Darkness, a fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator António Jorge Gonçalves.

• UNRULY BOOK 6 — Originally published in Italy, Old as Stone, Hard as Rock is a sweeping wordless history of war, painted with incredible nuance and insight by Alessandro Sanna.

• UNRULY BOOK 7 — Tales from Dreamland is a collection of unexpectedly transformative conversations between story and snapshot, from Los Angeles-based photographer Edward Valfre.

• UNRULY BOOK 8 — Gravity & Other Substances follows the visually rendered philosophical musings of Colombian artist Daniel Liévano on happiness, memories, dreams, and the whys of existence.