"Children will pore over this moody watercolor-soaked story of an introvert's creative awakening, which contains within it a bright collage of weirdly wonderful dreams and nightmares, while adults will covet it as a work of art that speaks to their inner child. A picture book-graphic novel hybrid by the self-taught Argentine artist Guillermo Decurgez (known as Decur), translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts and also available in a Spanish-language edition, it begins on 'moving day, ' as a boy who believes the world exists only inside his cellphone finds a mysterious notebook in the secret compartment of a desk in his new room." --The New York Times

"Decur toggles deftly between Lorenzo's world and surreal episodes from the journal, the crisp, brightly colored pages crackling with circus-like energy, the somber paintings reflecting Lorenzo's slow but steady awakening." --Publishers Weekly

"When You Look Up is a powerful, brilliant book about discovering ourselves through and in stories. This is a profound, powerful, brilliant picture book about stories within stories, stories about stories, stories for stories. It's a book that takes you to your own hidden depths and urges you to become both a creator and an interpreter. It's about reaching within and reaching out." --The Indian Express

"Argentine writer and illustrator Decurgez employs a variety of artistic techniques to transport Lorenzo, and middle-grade readers, in and out of the imaginative world of the notebook. At 184 pages, this extended picture book is a visual feast, but also quietly thoughtful." --World Magazine