Invisible Man

From the "ART DETECTIVES" series

Can the works of art become alive? What about the possibility to step into a painting and experience the depicted story? What are the secrets that the artists have hidden in their paintings?

The "Art Detectives" books invite you behind the scenes of the art world, full of adventures and mysteries. The series features the young detectives Theo and Button and their sausage-dog Comma, who investigate the hidden secrets of works by some of the best-known Latvian artists.

The Invisible Man is the second book in the Art Detectives series.

Teo and Poga secretly meet at an art museum. But when detective Poga unexpectedly loses control of her dog — the fat little dachshund Komats — and he disappears, an adventure begins on the other side of the eccentric artist Kārlis Padegs’s drawing Boots and a Dog. What follows is the greatest chase in the history of the art world, as the characters try to discover where Komats has gone, who the Invisible Man living inside the boots really is, and how to make him visible again.

Awards: the International Jānis Baltvilks Award for Children’s Literature and Book Art; the Pastariņš Prize; and inclusion in the international children’s and young adult literature catalogue The White Ravens.

Seven titles have been published in the "Art Detectives" series - "Missing Monkey", "Invisible Man", "Arrival of a Stranger", "The Mask", "Last King", "Untitled" and "Secret Password". In all books, readers dive into the greatest chase in the history of the art world, meeting famous Latvian artists (Janis Rozentāls, Niklāvs Strunke, etc) or artists that have roots in Latvian territory (Mark Rothko).

Publisher: Neputns; Illustrator: Elina Braslina.