A little boy responds to his mother's death in a deeply moving story leavened by glimmers of humour and winning illustrations.
When the boy in this story wakes up to find that his mother has died, he is overwhelmed with sadness, anger and fear that he will forget her. He shuts all the windows to keep in his mother's familiar smell and scratches open the cut on his knee to help him recall her comforting voice. He doesn't know how to speak to his dad any more, and when Grandma visits and throws open the windows, it's more than the boy can take - until she shows him another way to hold on to the feeling of his mum's love. With tenderness, touches of humour and unflinching emotional truth, Charlotte Moundlic captures the loneliness of grief through the eyes of a child, rendered with sympathy and charm in Olivier Tallec's expressive illustrations.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A beautifully, evocative book * Carousel * The most poignant of all * The Bookseller * A rare solace for a bereaved child. And a sentimental education for everyone else * Guardian * A book to be recommended as much to adults facing a child's grief as to the child himself * Books For Keeps * the central motif of the boy's scraped knee allows for a positive ending as the wound heals - although of course it does leave a scar * The School Librarian *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Kinder
Interest Age: From 5 to 7 years
Maße
Höhe: 247 mm
Breite: 202 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4063-3595-8 (9781406335958)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Charlotte Moundlic is the art director at French publishing imprint Pere Castor and the author of several French books for young readers. She lives in Paris.
Olivier Tallec graduated from the Ecole Superieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris and worked in advertising as a graphic designer before devoting himself to illustration. He has done many illustrations for newspapers and magazines and has illustrated more than thirty books for children. He lives in Paris.
