The Great Race

A silent picture book whose characters tell, through detailed images, a story about life’s transformations, its cycles, processes and repetitions. In it, bicycles emerge as protagonists, traversing the entire visual narrative with quiet determination. Life is portrayed as a great race, with its ups and downs, bright days and dark days, moments of chaos, and new beginnings.
The illustrations, hand-drawn in pencil, showcase the author’s distinctive style.

“A lot is shown, but nothing is explained in the images of this wordless book, which is why The Great Race allows for many ways of reading. The black-and-white sketches, with their nervous lines and filigree, and their numerous, sometimes tiny details, inspire readers to flip back and forth, to look with wonder and to reflect. Debut picture book creator Ca_teter’s work is fascinating for its courage to leave everything open and to give the reader total freedom to see what they would like to see, or believe they see, in the images.”

―Excerpt from Jochen Weber, jury member for The White Ravens 2021―

Key points

2022 – Selected for The BRAW Amazing Bookshelf, Bologna Children’s Book Fair
2021 – Selected for The White Ravens List
2021 – First Prize in the category Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Uruguay National Literature Awards

• The series of 5 images that inspired the book won the 2018 Uruguay Illustration Award.
• An open-ended, multigenerational book that allows for different interpretations and ways of reading.
• The illustrations are full of details and characters that invite you to explore them again and again.