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The Comet by Joe Todd-Stanton

March 8, 2022 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 9 Mar 2022

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I’ve been waiting in anticipation for The Comet by @Joetoddstanton to come out & honestly, it’s one of my favourite picturebooks of all time. Joe’s visual storytelling is beyond compare. So many clever ways of using text and image to convey an emotive & beautiful story. Stunning. pic.twitter.com/DwaAz4t8yD

— Charlotte Hacking (@charliehacking) February 13, 2022

When Nyla has to leave her home in the countryside to start life again in the city, all she can think about is everything she misses from before. So when a comet comes crashing through the city streets and starts to glow and grow, Nyla can’t resist a chance to head somewhere that feels closer to what she had before. But what starts as an escape could be just the thing to make her finally feel at home.

From the award-winning Joe Todd-Stanton, comes an exquisite and heartfelt picture book touching on the bewildering experience of moving house. This beautiful story explores how this can affect a child’s sense of belonging, but also how it can open them up to new and wonderful experiences.

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Filed Under: BookOfTheDay, Illustrated Tagged With: city, country, home, moving house

City Trails – London by Lonely Planet Kids

May 5, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

9781760342272

Lonely Planet Kids is the new children’s imprint that brings the world to life for young explorers everywhere, with a range of books aimed at kickstarting the travel bug in children aged 5-12.

Other cities currently in the series: PARIS, NEW YORK

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Filed Under: NonFiction Tagged With: cities, city, travel

How About: The Promise

December 15, 2014 By achuka 1 Comment

ThePromise

An affecting picture book for older children, well-received in hardback last year, and now in paperback.
The book is narrated by a boy [see comment!] growing up in a mean, hard and ugly city. He lives by stealing, usually pickpocketing on crowded streets. Then one night he tries to snatch a old woman’s handbag but she hangs on tight and will not let go until he has made a promise to “plant them”. He is expecting the fat bag to be full of coins. But when he opens it he finds only acorns. “I stared at them, so green, so perfect and so many, and understood The Promise I had made. I held a forest in my arms, and my heart was changed.”
He keeps his promise and travels from city to city, planting the acorns. Slowly they flourish and the cities become lively, colourful places once again.
Finally, on arriving in a new city where his planting was yet to start, “in a lonely alley, a young thief fought me for my sack of acorns. I smiled and made the old bargain, knowing how a heart can change, knowing that my planting will go on…”

Not a particularly seasonal book, but foll of genuine Christmas spirit. A book author, illustrator and publisher can be proud of.

via The Promise.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, How About Tagged With: acorns, bargain, change, city, growth, heart, life, mean, planting, ugly

Michael Morpurgo hits out at city-centric politicians

April 23, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Michael Morpurgo hits out at city-centric politicians who do not have a feel for the countryside and are not interested in maintaining the quality of rural landscapes…

City-dwelling politicians do not care about the countryside, Michael Morpurgo the former Children’s laureate said.
The War Horse author said politicians had “no connection” to the countryside and put all their energy into tackling urban problems because “that’s where the votes are”.
Even the recent floods only attracted the attention of Ministers when it “came down a river called The Thames”, he told a meeting of the Devon branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
Politicians also back “out of proportion” wind farms because they do not understand “the landscape and architecture” of the countryside, he said.

via Michael Morpurgo: politicians are city dwellers with no connection to countryside – Telegraph.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: city, countryside, landscape, politicians, politics, rural, wind farms

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