
After some very stressful weeks, I thought I was only able to read “easier” stories. I found this beautiful children‘s book in our little free library and well… it is not that shallow. 🙈

After some very stressful weeks, I thought I was only able to read “easier” stories. I found this beautiful children‘s book in our little free library and well… it is not that shallow. 🙈

It‘s after the war, and the city has been destroyed and people living there hardly has any food, but the people living in the countryside has. So parents send their kids by train out to the countryside for them to escape the city and get enough to eat.
Tobias is one of these kids, sent to an island to a fisher. The fisher is grumpy. But what is she hiding behind the door Tobias is not allowed to enter?

I love these endpapers

Can‘t you just feel his loneliness?

This is Maja Lunde and Lisa Aisato‘s latest book in their seasonal quartet, and we‘ve reached summer.
The illustrations, like this one, is a huge reminder of how much I love Aisato‘s illustrations