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From the Double Kate Greenaway Medal-winning creator of Small in the City and illustrator of Town Is by the Sea, Footpath Flowers, I Talk Like a River and My Baba's Garden comes a moving and unforgettable look at how memories are made.
"A story that captures both the beginning of something new and the end of something treasured, this is a gorgeous tale of endurance." Irish Examiner
"Precisely crafted around a moment of transition (which may be good or bad, or both), this affecting book brings words and images together in ways that seem simpler than they are." Books for Keeps
Tucked up in bed at their new flat, a boy and his mum share memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out.
Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all of those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favourite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined.
Also by Sydney Smith:
Small in the City
About the author
Sydney Smith is the winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration 2024 and two Kate Greenaway Medals for Small in the City and Town is by the Sea written by Joanne Schwartz. He has also illustrated I Talk Like a River and My Baba's Garden, both by Jordan Scott; The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart; Footpath Flowers by JonArno Lawson; and authorial picture book Do You Remember? His other accolades include two Governor General's Awards and four New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year citations. Sydney lives with his family in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
