Imagine!
Rhymes of hope to shout together
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the unique voice of Bruno Tognolini, the most beloved children’s poet in Italy today, come these 24 “rhymes of hope to shout together”: a musical rhythmic chant that gives voice to the wishes and hopes of all children. From the biggest dreams of peace, solidarity between people, the protection of nature, to the smallest and most intimate dreams, which are no less heartfelt.
A perfect mixture of irony and depth, a true manifesto for a better future, which makes you want to take to the streets to shout to the stanzas to the skies.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In sometimes rhyming quatrains that each begin "If only..." and end with "Imagine!" Tognolini channels the wishes of children. Some desires hint at real-life circumstances ("If only Google could show me a map/ Of where to find work for my darling dad"), while others read as more fanciful ("If only me and my animal friends/ Could do a jaguar roar, join a singing bird band"). Orecchia draws a gaggle of children with various skin tones, while stylized elements form whimsical collages—an airplane carrying gold-filled coffers, a machine that turns tanks and nuclear cooling towers into flowers and birds—in a book whose subject matter pivots rapidly between the serious and the buoyant. Ages 5–8.
