Technical specs
Original title: Nunca vi uma bicicleta e os patos não me largam
32 pages / 220 x 260 mm
ISBN: 9789898145444 / RRP: 13,90€
1st edition: March 2012
© Rights sold: Italian
I’ve never seen a bicycle and the ducks won’t leave me be
(Portuguese edition)
Our parents and our teachers only want the best for us, it goes without saying.
But sometimes they’re so worried about teaching us things that they forget the importance of taking us to see the ducks or teaching us to ride a bike.
This is an amusing book that prompts us to ask:
What’s the most important thing?
How many ways are there to learn?
What is school for?
Technical specs
Original title: Nunca vi uma bicicleta e os patos não me largam
32 pages / 220 x 260 mm
ISBN: 9789898145444 / RRP: 13,90€
1st edition: March 2012
© Rights sold: Italian
Awards and recognitions
Recommended — Portuguese National Reading Plan
What they say
The subtle criticisms and fun-making of certain misgivings inscribed in the supposed “education” and “systems” around us make this book more than just a book on the shelf with a strange title: it’s a reflection – mocking to the very limits – of how absurd we have become, of how absurd we’re becoming, or of how absurd we might yet become (for how much longer?).
Paula Pina, “Cria cria” blog
With a precise and unlikely title, this book invites us to reflect on ways of learning about the world. With illustrations which make us think of a school environment, but which upend it with unexpected diversions, the book of ducks and bicycles is, above all, about discovering how to sit on a bike and forget all about the brakes.
Sara Figueiredo Costa, Expresso newspaper