Some Sunny Day
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Publisher Description
A funny and incredibly moving new novel of our times by one of the most talented children’s book authors working today, perfect for fans of Wonder, Frank Cottrell-Boyce or The Boy at the Back of the Class.
Cymbeline Igloo is BORED. Bored of home learning, bored of lockdown, bored of not being able to DO anything. And to make things even worse, his mum accidentally gave away his favourite football shirt.
But then Mrs Stebbings, the beloved school cook, is taken into hospital, and suddenly coronavirus seems much closer to home. When Cym starts a project all about Mrs Stebbings’ childhood in World War II, he can’t know that it’s the beginning of something incredible and even dangerous.
Exploring the place where her street once stood, he finds a tent, a strange girl wearing HIS SHIRT, and a mystery that will change absolutely everything. Because the past is more present than Cymbeline can possibly know – and the most amazing thing is how much one small person can do RIGHT NOW…
Some Sunny Day is a story of hope, kindness and the history we all make every day, no matter who we are.
About the author
Adam Baron is the author of five successful novels and has, in his time, been an actor, comedian, journalist and press officer at Channel 4 television (as well as things he’s too embarrassed to mention). He now runs the widely respected MA in Creative Writing at Kingston University London. Adam lives in Greenwich, South London, with his wife and three young children. He wrote Boy Underwater (his first novel aimed at younger readers) because they told him to. While still in the flush of youth he knows what his final words are going to be: ‘clear the table’.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Deep in the lockdown experiences of early Covid-19, 10-year-old Cymbeline Igloo, star of Boy Underwater, undergoes new experiences in his London neighborhood, despite circumstantial limitations. Cym, who's been isolating at home with his mum, is feeling at loose ends. He can't play footie with his best friend Lance, or even, due to the flour shortage, enjoy Sunday morning pancakes. Though Cym's mother is engaged to their neighbor, he and his two daughters are stuck in New Zealand, and she's using her worry-fueled hours at home to do a deep cleaning—including of Cym's room. When the cleaning results in the loss of a beloved object, and Mrs. Stebbings, the school's "chief dinner lady," is hospitalized with Covid, Cym's world continues to tip uncomfortably. Depicting new predicaments and opportunities brought on by the pandemic, Baron (This Wonderful Thing) deploys narrator Cym's variable emotional landscape to capture localized day-to-day experiences—the joys of a misty early morning London park and the limitations of Zoom—as well as the state of the larger world. Characters read as white. Ages 9–12.
