This beautiful and moving picture book from Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, tells the story of how a big, hairy argument gets in between two best friends.
‘The argument came from nowhere.
It sat huge and bloated
in the middle of the playground
between me and my best friend.’
This
big hairy monster appears out of the blue one day, splitting up the best friends and
growing bigger and bigger, until it starts to ruin all the children in the playground’s fun.
Together, they learn how to shrink the monster until it vanishes completely, to the point where they
can’t even remember what it looks like!
Coelho’s gentle and lyrical verse pair perfectly with
Allison Colpoys’ beautiful illustrations to create a book which will be
treasured by young readers .
This is an
ode to the power of an apology and the importance of saying sorry , and to
treasuring a special bond that runs deeper than even the friends realized.
About the author
Allison Colpoys grew up in the Northern Territory and now lives on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne. As an illustrator, Allison combines digital and traditional media to tell emotive stories with her expressive use of color and pattern. Allison originally studied multimedia before succumbing to the pull of illustration and design for commercial publications and children’s books. Her heartwarming illustrations appear in numerous books for young readers, including If All The World Were… by author Joseph Coelho, published by Frances Lincoln in London. Along with numerous Australian Book Design Association awards for illustration and cover design, Allison has won the CBCA Crichton Award for Best New Talent and two Australian Book Industry Awards.
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