A gentle, beautiful, comfort of a picture book story, ‘A Horse Called Now’ encourages over-wrought animals to calm down and focus on the present.
A simple but powerful story about the panic induced by ‘what if’ thoughts, how a change of focus can help, but, perhaps even more, how coming together with others in troubling times helps us all through.
Alexandra Finkeldey’s limited colour palette pictures have a feel of artwork from the early 1960s, that spare treatment beautifully suiting the simplicity of Ruth Doyle’s story.
A very lovely book, sure to be asked for again and again.
2 comments:
This looks lovely - thank you, Pippa.
Looks a lovely book, with a grounded rather than fantasy setting, and a welcome message.
I'd also add that it seems to make a quiet change from the angry "No" type of picture book story, or the animal not knowing what kind of animal it is. Thank you.
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