Les aventures d'Archibald le koala sur l'île de Rastepappe #[2]

Part of Paul Cox's charming French series following Archibald the koala, this 1991 Albin Michel Jeunesse volume — L'énigme de l'île flottante — presents a delightfully quirky mystery right on its cover: a sandy island scene where Archibald and two animal companions investigate what appears to be a half-buried wheel or mechanism emerging from the ground, flanked by two peculiar, ornate palm trees. Cox's warm, whimsical linework gives the whole tableau an irresistible storybook quality that makes the puzzle of the floating island feel genuinely intriguing.