Technical specs
Original title: Um dia, um guarda-chuva…
32 pages / 195 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145291 / RRP: 12,50€
1st edition: February 2011
© Rights sold: Korean
A day in the life of an umbrella
(Portuguese edition)
The destiny of many an umbrella is to lose its owner.
Luckily, the sense of abandonment is only ever temporary, because lost umbrellas always find a new guardian (desperate and soaked through…) who quickly return them to their mission. Something similar happened to the umbrella in this book: it was forgotten on a bus and then passed from hand to hand, discovering new owners and capabilities.
In just one day, it is used to fend off a pickpocket, stars in a circus, is turned into a boat and it even appeared in a film… which proves that an umbrella can be used for many more tasks than keeping heads dry on rainy days. And then at the end of it all, and after many twists and turns, the umbrella ends up where we least expect to find it…
A picture book which challenges readers to find, in each illustration, the elements which provide continuity from one page to the next.
Technical specs
Original title: Um dia, um guarda-chuva…
32 pages / 195 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145291 / RRP: 12,50€
1st edition: February 2011
© Rights sold: Korean
Awards and recognitions
Recommended – National Reading Plan (Portugal)
Winner – Ilustrarte, Children’s Illustration Biennial (2012)
Finalist – 4th CJ Picture Book Festival (Korea)
What they say
A Day in the Life of an Umbrella is a book which immediately captures the reader. Be that because he or she immediately recognises himself in the story, be it because of the absorbing nature of that most photogenic (or perhaps we should say graphically appealing) object which is so easy to leave behind. The clues which appear in each illustration, and preclude the scene on the following pages, are thoroughly effective and charming. A beautiful “foreign” debut for a publisher which until this point had only published books “made in Portugal”.
Rita Pimenta, Público newspaper, March 2011
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