Fall 2025

Trumpets of Death

A Graphic Novel

  • Interest Level: Grade 9 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 7

One rainy night, Antoine gets dropped off at his grandparents’ remote house in the middle of the woods. He’s stuck between a doting grandmother and a grandfather openly hostile to his presence, and time crawls by while he waits to hear from his parents. When Antoine ventures out with his grandfather to forage for mushrooms, intergenerational conflict and mysterious forces of nature culminate in a fearsome hunt through the forest that will resolve their differences once and for all.

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Interest Level Grade 9 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 7
Genre Graphic Novels, Young Adult
Copyright 2025
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Graphic Universe ™
Language English
Number of Pages 232
Publication Date 2025-08-05
Text Type Fiction—Science Fiction/Fantasy
BISACS YAF010100, YAF018040, YAF002000
Dewey 741.5/973
Dimensions 7 x 10
Features Author/Illustrator biography and Reviewed

Author, Illustrator: Simon Bournel-Bosson

Simon Bournel-Bosson is a graphic designer and comic artist based in France. After earning a higher diploma in Applied Arts at La Martinière in Lyon, began working in graphic design and art. Together with Maxime Gueugneau, he co-wrote two illustrated reports, En Diagonale in 2017 and Azur in 2021, for Kiblind editions. The Trumpets of Death is his first comic book.

Reviews

Foreword Reviews

“A beautiful graphic novel about a boy whose transformation into a stag leads to personal growth and maturity.”—Foreword Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

“An unsettling, thought-provoking coming of age.”—Kirkus Reviews