Artists, bees and chimpanzees: everything that lives fights to survive.
Frankie Webb is a young beekeeper whose dream is to be an artist. With a father like his, this is a very dangerous secret. The paint is extremely useful, however, to a mouse-like midget called Tiny who is hiding a spectacular secret of his own: a miniature city of dreams, built from anything he can scavenge. When Frankie discovers it, the lives of Tiny and his only friend, Speck, are never the same again.
Thanks to an invasion of escaped lab animals, Tiny’s masterpiece makes an accidental star of Frankie, while the real artist is taken prisoner in his own mini metropolis and lured into the heart of a criminal conspiracy that really makes his tail stump itch. Here in the human city, the street art is coming out of the alleys and spreading all over town, but some problems can't be painted over. These monster humans have felt like little people for long enough.
In this world, even dreams have a price and small creatures have their uses. Only Frankie can help his tiny friend escape the crooked art dealers and find a way to survive in a city on the brink of anarchy, but only a runaway chimp can offer Tiny a clue to his true identity.
Tiny Life and the Monster Head is a story about survival: from the survival of honeybees in their battles with wasps and microscopic blood-suckers, all the way up to humans in their daily battles to beat the clock and to beat each other. It is a tale of minuscule proportions and giant themes for readers young and old: street artists, beekeepers and futurists among them.
Frankie Webb is a young beekeeper whose dream is to be an artist. With a father like his, this is a very dangerous secret. The paint is extremely useful, however, to a mouse-like midget called Tiny who is hiding a spectacular secret of his own: a miniature city of dreams, built from anything he can scavenge. When Frankie discovers it, the lives of Tiny and his only friend, Speck, are never the same again.
Thanks to an invasion of escaped lab animals, Tiny’s masterpiece makes an accidental star of Frankie, while the real artist is taken prisoner in his own mini metropolis and lured into the heart of a criminal conspiracy that really makes his tail stump itch. Here in the human city, the street art is coming out of the alleys and spreading all over town, but some problems can't be painted over. These monster humans have felt like little people for long enough.
In this world, even dreams have a price and small creatures have their uses. Only Frankie can help his tiny friend escape the crooked art dealers and find a way to survive in a city on the brink of anarchy, but only a runaway chimp can offer Tiny a clue to his true identity.
Tiny Life and the Monster Head is a story about survival: from the survival of honeybees in their battles with wasps and microscopic blood-suckers, all the way up to humans in their daily battles to beat the clock and to beat each other. It is a tale of minuscule proportions and giant themes for readers young and old: street artists, beekeepers and futurists among them.
