Pebbles to the Sea

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今日のラ・グレイブは灰色でした。色彩が眠りに落ちてしまいました。
フローとフィーの姉妹は母と一緒に工房のお店にいきました。父は港にいます。姉妹は海岸に流れ着いたものに色を塗って遊んでいました。

ふたりは石が空を横切り、弧をたどるのを見ました。
それはアンリの巨大なパチンコに違いありません。フローとフィーは彼に会いに行くことにしました。父と母がたどっていけるように、色を塗った石を置いていきながら。
カフェに立ち寄り、ピアノ奏者とおしゃべりし、彼女の店でアーティストの友人を訪ねます。

パチンコで石を放ったアンリに出会い、二人は何を聞いたのでしょうか。

港町とそこに住む人々が、写真やレース、ペーパーなどでコラージュしたイラストによって、現実と物語の狭間を表現しているような、不思議な感覚を覚える絵本です。

Pebbles to the Sea
Contributor(s): Arsenault, Marie-Andr?e (Author) , LeRoux, Dominique (Illustrator) , Tanaka, Shelley (Translator)
EAN: 9781773068244
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: October 04, 2022
Target Age Group: 05 to 08
Physical Info: 1.27 cms H x 28.19 cms L x 24.89 cms W (0.5 kgs) 40 pages

Publisher Marketing:
Two children feel adrift between the separate worlds of their parents ...
With their father at the marina, and their mother in the workshop, Flo and F?e aren't sure where they belong. But at least they can still have fun painting the treasures that wash up on the shore.
One day they hear a noise and see a stone trace an arc across the sky -- it must be from Henri's giant slingshot! They decide to go see him, but first stop at the caf?, where they chat with the piano player, then visit their artist-friend in her shop. When they finally reach Henri, he lifts them up onto ladders where they can see two islands that were once connected by an ice bridge. "Have the two islands separated? Like Maman and Papa?" Flo asks. But Henri tells them there's a sand bridge underwater that links the islands, just as the girls still link their parents. Then he, like the piano player and artist, walks away with a brush and can of paint. Where can they all be going?
This richly nuanced story is inspired by the geography and close-knit coastal community of La Grave heritage site on Quebec's ?les de la Madeleine. The French edition, Des couleurs sur la grave, won the prix Harry Black de l'album jeunesse.