The Invisible

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What was your favourite book when you were a child?Tim and Tobias is the first book in the ‘Flight Path to Reading’ reading scheme and was written by Sheila K. McCullagh. It was the first book that I remember loving and was (guess what) atmospheric, magical and slightly dark.

Lo stato mentale in cui si trova la piccola nella storia può essere ricondotto ad uno stato di solitudine. Tutto inizia con una sensazione di distacco e altri “sintomi” tra i quali: Coffee house Caffè Nero has announced the 16-strong shortlist for the inaugural Nero Book Awards, recognising the outstanding books of the past 12... He grew up in a remote and beautiful part of South Shropshire. On reflection this seemed rather more remote than beautiful, owing to the fact that he lived in a small caravan without electricity, mains water or any sensible form of heating. He thinks that he’s probably one of the few people in his peer group to have learnt to read by gas lamp. Isabel, στο οικογενειακό της σπίτι με τους γονείς της και τον σκύλο της. Η οικογένεια ζούσε λιτά χωρίς ανέσεις και υπερβολές, σε ένα σπίτι που έσφυζε από αγάπη, ένα σπίτι όπυ είχαν ο ένας τον άλλον, μέχρι που δεν μπορούσαν πλέον να πληρώσουν τους λογαριασμούς και το νοίκι τους τους και μεταφέρθηκαν σε μια πολυκατοικία στην άλλη άκρη της πόλης. Η Isabel αισθάνεται ότι ξεθωριάζει και μένει στο παρασκήνιο, παρατηρήσει και άλλους ανθρώπους που ξεθωριάζουν και αποφασίζει ότι πρέπει να τους ζωντανέψει ξανά. A beautiful, tender story about seeing the everyday beauty in the world and realising we all have the right to belong somewhere. Tom Percival’s wintery illustrations are emotive and quiet at the beginning of the story, the streets of Isabel’s strange new home isolated and dark, but filled with glorious sunny colours and life by the end as she sees people and is seen in return as someone who belongs. Compassionate, thoughtful, and a lovely story to read aloud together.

The winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2023 have been announced, with one winner from each of the four categories announced: Picture book, Children... C'est un bel album, sur un enjeu social réel et actuel, qui conviendrait aux enfants d'âge scolaire. This full colour picture book uses muted shades for much of the story – showing us just how cold and dark it is and how awful it is to be ‘invisible’. The beginning of the story has colour – but it is all edged with cold, and icy windows. It is not until the end of the book – when winter has passed, when the sun and spring add to the wonderful colour the new community has created by all working together. This is a very gentle story with a potent and persuasive message, that small acts can add up to a huge change. Whilst being selfless it also shows that Isabel and her family have all benefitted by the actions she has instigated.

Isabel is a small girl who lives with her family, and though they have little they have each other, so life is happy. Then disaster strikes and they have to leave their home to move to the other side of town - where everything is grey and cold and sad and lonely. As she walks about Isabel realises she is ignored by people, and feels she is literally fading away. It is not until she has faded and become truly invisible that she notices all the other invisible people sitting or working away at different things – like planting flowers in old paint pots or mending a bike – but they are all alone too. So, Isabel decides to help, she helps to fix things up and gradually others join in too. As more people join in they become less invisible, until they have created a vibrant area where they can all be seen. By doing as she did Isabel has learned that one of the hardest things is to make a difference. Who or what was your biggest influence in deciding to become a writer? I just love making up stories and drawing pictures – it was inevitable. Not that I’d get published of course, but even if I hadn’t got published I’d still sit there coming up with ideas and writing them down. It’s just what I do.Ein wunderschön traurig und zugleich fröhliches Buch, das zeigt, dass niemand ausgeschlossen (unsichtbar) gehört und jeder seinen Beitrag zur Gesellschaft beitragen kann. Gemeinsam ist man stark, gemeinsam macht das Leben Spaß. Niemand muss allein sein.

Isabel und ihe Eltern haben nur wenig Geld, eines Tages kommt es sogar, dass sie aus ihrem Haus raus müssen, da sie die Miete nicht mehr zahlen können. Sie ziehen in einen anderen Teil der Stadt und Isabel merkt plötzlich, dass sie für andere, reichere Leute immer unsichtbarer wird. Dann sieht sie, wie andere Menschen ebenfalls unsichtbar sind, Flüchtlinge, Obdachlose oder Rollstuhlfahrer. Isabel möchte etwas ändern... Jon Klassen. I have a huge amount of time for Jon Klassen’s hyper-minimal style, it’s SO stark and yet so full of character and humour. Very impressive. Perhaps an odd choice as a teenager, but I went through a stage of reading as many Mary Wesley books as I could get my hands on. She just seemed to be so skilled at portraying people of all ages and walks of life. As a teenager I marvelled at the fact that she could so clearly write about what it felt like to be that age, being as she had her first novel published aged 71. Of course now that I’m 35 and can still remember EXACTLY what it felt like to be 16 it doesn’t seem that unlikely anymore – ah, the follies of youth. Oliver Jeffers. For very similar reasons to Jon Klassen, I really admire Oliver Jeffers’ ability to communicate a huge amount of emotion or mood with the bare minimum of marks. I always seem to end up going with the illustrative equivalent of the ‘Wall of Sound’ in music production! Tom Percival δημιούργησε ένα όμορφο και συγκινητικό βιβλίο που πιστεύω ότι τονίζει ότι μερικές φορές οι μικρές πράξεις μπορούν να κάνουν τη διαφορά και ότι αν δεν λειτουργούμε κοιτώντας μόνο τον εαυτό μας, αλλά ενώσουμε τις δυνάμεις μας μπορούμε να δημιουργήσουμε μια αλλάγη ακόμη μεγαλύτερη. Σκοπός της ζωής μας άλλωστε είναι να είμαστε ευτυχισμένοι και να λέμε ευχαριστώ για όσα έχουμε και να καλοδεχόμαστε όσα έρθουν αλλά και την αρωγή των άλλων στην ζωή μας και να μην γίνουμε άπληστοι και απόμακροι.Tom Percival ρίχνει με τις λέξεις και τα χρώματά του (είναι απίστευτο το πώς καταφέρνει να κάνει τον αναγνώστη να κρυώσει, να πονέσει, να εξαφανιστεί) φως σε όσους συνυπάρχουν ανάμεσά μας και αισθάνονται «αόρατοι», αναδεικνύοντας με τρυφερότητα τη σημασία του να αντιλαμβανόμαστε την αλήθεια γύρω μας. Το βιβλίο αυτό καταρχάς δείχνει σε κάθε παιδί και ενήλικο ότι ανεξάρτητα από την οικονομική κατάσταση της οικογένειάς του μπορεί και πρέπει να διεκδικεί το δικαίωμά του στην ευτυχία και στην ομορφιά, πάντα με τη συνεργασία και την αγάπη των γύρω του. Normally it involves a long train journey, because that’s the only time that I’m not having to do some of my other work, or look after the kids, or do the washing up, or tidying up the house, or chopping logs for the fire, or putting out the rubbish or any one of the myriad things I have to do in my actual house on a day-to-day basis