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Night Shift
Night Shift | Debi Gliori
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'Debi Gliori is amazing. Her pictures offer people an insight into depression that words often struggle to reach. She makes visible the invisible. And I for one want to thank her for that.' - Matt Haig, bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive A groundbreaking picture book on depression with stunning illustrations. With stunning black and white illustration and deceptively simple text, author and illustrator Debi Gliori examines how depression affects one's whole outlook upon life, and shows that there can be an escape - it may not be easy to find, but it is there. Drawn from Debi's own experiences and with a moving testimony at the end of the book explaining how depression has affected her and how she continues to cope, Debi hopes that by sharing her own experience she can help others who suffer from depression, and to find that subtle shift that will show the way out. 'I have used dragons to represent depression. This is partly because of their legendary ability to turn a once fertile realm into a blackened, smoking ruin and partly because popular mythology shows them as monstrous opponents with a tendency to pick fights with smaller creatures. I'm not particularly brave or resourceful, and after so many years battling my beasts, I have to admit to a certain weariness, but I will arm-wrestle dragons for eternity if it means that I can help anyone going through a similar struggle.'
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megnews
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A very brief illustrated representation of depression. I agree with another reviewer who said it could have been longer. The ending was abrupt.
But definitely a worthy addition on this topic.

Book 322 12/24/19

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rockpools
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‘Night skills: the ability to survive inside my own darkness‘

Totally opposite end of the #PictureBooksAtoZ spectrum, but equally awesome. This is a beautiful adult picturebook (no, I didn‘t know that was a thing) documenting the author‘s experience of depression. There are dragons. There is darkness. There are trite unhelpful comments (‘chin up!‘) But eventually something shifts.
Brilliantly done with very few words. And gorgeous to boot. #BBRC

BookwormAHN Nice, I'll have to look for that one. 5y
LibrarianRyan 😁👍🏻❤️ 5y
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Krisjericho
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An adult picture book about the author‘s experience with depression. The pictures and the very short text are evocative and capture her feelings well. There were a few illustrations that I could relate to with my experience with anxiety. Powerful, but it is almost too short. I think it could have been more impactful with some more content added.

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Kalalalatja
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A beautiful picture book that illustrates how living with depression can feel like battling dragons. The book tells the author's own experience with depression, and it does it well!

My second book for #24in48 #readathon

rubyslippersreads Gorgeous! What is the book underneath? 7y
Moray_Reads @rubyslippersreads you beat me to it 😉 7y
elkeOriginal Gorgeous photo! Those 2 books were made for each other 😻 7y
Kalalalatja @elkeo there's also this book, which is in the same kind of design and colours 👌 7y
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elkeOriginal
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Samples of the insides of this sharp and moving description of depression.

readinginthedark 😞❤️ 7y
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elkeOriginal
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A beautiful graphic representation of living with the dragons of depression on a daily basis.
Thanks for the suggestion @Kalalalatja - it's beautifully done both art-wise and the seeming simplicity of the text. Excellent.

Kalalalatja Glad you liked it! 👏 7y
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Jeg
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My new book and its blurb.

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Jeg
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Given this today by my love. A great little book about depression.