Synopsis
Will wants to draw his father. But it is hard to draw someone you cannot really remember, and when Will tries, the result is just angry, black scribbles. But then he meets his neighbor, a painter, and begins to understand that pictures can look a thousand different ways and express a thousand different things. They can mirror the world we see or express the world we carry inside us, and neither is more "right" than the other.
Tallulah plans this as a book that can be used in pre-school and middle-grade, because of the many themes contained in the artwork, but not expressed with words.
Check out Tallulah's lovely "Read & Paint" together material here.
Personal note from the author
"Images can give form to the intangible and language to the unspeakable. They can therefore open up conversations where words fall short—or where words might prove too concrete, too intense, or even cruel. Images can present fantasy and reality side by side, without the need to know exactly where the boundaries lie. Illustrated literature can thus serve as a wonderful prism through which children view the world, as it allows their eyes to see just as far and as deeply as they are capable of grasping and understanding."
