Joao by a Thread

2014年にHans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration を受賞したブラジルのイラストレーターRoger Melloの夢の中をさまようような不思議な絵本です。

キルトの毛布に包まれている中で、彼は夢の世界へと旅立っていきます。
かれの毛布はさまざまに変化していきます。
山の峰を描いたり、荒々しい波を描いたり、時には魚が網を食い破ったりします。
夢とは、時に理解し難いもの。

不思議な不思議な糸を紡いでいく絵本です。

Joao by a Thread
Contributor(s): Mello, Roger (Author) , Hahn, Daniel (Translator) , Mello, Roger (Illustrator)
EAN: 9781953861344
Publisher: Elsewhere Editions
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: October 25, 2022
Target Age Group: 05 to 08
Physical Info: 1.27 cms H x 16.26 cms L x 23.37 cms W (0.29 kgs) 37 pages

Annotation:
"As Jo?ao tucks under a lovingly woven quilt, he asks himself: So it's just me now? He curls up, getting cozy in bed, and soon the world of his dreams unspools on the page. The blanket in his bed unravels into deep rivers, lakes, valleys, reservoirs, mountain ranges, fishing nets full of tadpoles and gaping holes, until what's left is just one long thread. When he feels alone and scared in the dark, Jo?ao "sews words like patchwork" into a new blanket to cover himself up. He weaves the threads of his quilt until they form one long sentence, and soon, the nighttime is peppered with his own silvery, slippery words. Roger Mello draws like a shapeshifter - to look at his illustrations is always to see something you missed before (a stingray, a crescent moon nestled into the palm of Jo?ao's hand). His breathtaking line drawings, beaming in white thread against deep red, combined with poetic and bewildered language, make Jo?ao by a Thread a book to take into bed at the edge of sleep, just before you start to dream."--