On A Magical Do-Nothing Day

Beatrice Alemagna

On A Magical Do-Nothing Day
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 September 2018
Pages
48
ISBN
9780500651797

On A Magical Do-Nothing Day

Beatrice Alemagna

All I want to do on a rainy day like today is play my game, but my mum says it’s a waste of time. The game drives my mum mad. She takes it away. I take it back. I wish Dad had come with us on this rainy, grey weekend. Without my game, nothing is fun. On the other hand, maybe I’m wrong about that…

A poignant look at the way things come and go, beautifully illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna, winner of the Society of Illustrator’s Gold Medal for Original Art

Review

Dropping their electronic game into a pond wasn’t part of the plan for the child sent outside to play in this book. Sad for them, but this little mishap unlocks a day lined with adventure and gentle surrealism, as they explore the natural world and embrace an older form of play. When artist-author Beatrice Alemagna was a child she adored Pippi Longstocking. And there is more than a touch of that free-roaming hero in these beautiful pages. And, like Max in Where the Wild Things Are, the adventuring child returns home, to a place familiar yet subtly changed.


Mike Shuttleworth is a children’s and YA specialist at Readings Hawthorn.

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