Julia and the Shark

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Moreover, the hardcover edition is just stunning what with Tom de Freston's black-and-white illustrations that have yellow highlights popping out. Her second novel The Island at the End of Everythingwas released in April 2017, and was shortlisted for both the Costa Book Award and Blue Peter Children’s Book Award. Es sind um die 200 Seiten aber es hatte wirklich alles, eine wunderschöne Geschichte, tolle Charaktere, eine großartige Familiendynamik und eine richtig schöne Freundschaft. Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer – her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. That comparison alone is some of the highest praise I can give a book, if you know my feelings on the former.

Intoxicating and impossible to put down, it is a future classic whose beauty and heart will resound for generations. This was a gorgeous story of mental health, friendship, family and realising for the first time that your parents aren’t as unbreakable as you once thought. Yes, my two star review for Julia and the Shark (2021) appears to generally be rather amongst the minority here. This is the story of a little girl whose parents are the most adventurous ones, who are living their dreams at their best. in het boek wordt Julia gepest en uitgescholden voor 'whale', terwijl zij geillustreerd is als een meisje met een slank(er) postuur.

With breathtaking black, white and yellow illustrations created using the ashes from the fire that destroyed de Freston’s studio, Julia and the Sharkis both a testament to artistic rebirth and an exquisite reflection on family, science and the fragile yet sublime beauty of the environment. But when her mother’s determination tips over into obsession, Julia is forced to dive into an adventure with hidden depths and turbulent emotional currents which threatens to submerge them all. Well, I don't want to spoil too much but her mother's obsession with the shark and mental health issues take center stage here. Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston met in 2009, when Kiran was a student and Tom was artist-in-residence at Cambridge University. Even as her father tries to reassure Julia that it is just a phase, she senses her mother’s withdrawal and thinks that if she can find the shark by herself, her mother will get better.

It's one of those stories that transcends its age-demographic and moves straight into instant-classic territory. But one thing Julia can’t escape is her mother’s mental health struggle (late on named as bipolar: “Mum sometimes bounced around like Tigger, and other times she was mopey like Eeyore”). Her first book for adults, The Mercies, debuted as The Times number 1 bestseller, and at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. The story is a wonderful starting-point for meaningful conversations, yet stands powerful enough on its own not to require explanation for its emotional resonance.

Ik heb geen flauw idee of kinderen vanaf 10 jaar dit ook echt lezen, de beter lezer dan, of dat dit vooral een boek is dat de volwassenen mooi vinden.