Gaspard Dans La Nuit
by Seng Soun Ratanavanh published by Le Matiniere is a beautiful and tender children's book.
The protagonist of this story is a melancholic and friendless kid called Gaspard.
Gaspard doesn't have friends but he would want them so badly for having some fun all together, for not staying all the time alone.
It's night and the city is sleeping; Gaspard can't, because he dreams so badly of having a friend, and this weird friend appears, a little mice asking if he wants to be a friend. Gaspard is excited and with him leaves his bed for visiting other parts of his house.
This one is just the beginning of an animated trip with exotic animals sometimes living in distant places but there, just for him: their professions in most cases are interesting, particular; they will sing, they will live extraordinary, colored and fantasmagoric adventures; all of it before of the arrival of light and of a new day, when every magic disappears for leaving the time and world at normality and common routine.
Till, of course, at the arrival of a new night!
The illustrations of this children's book are wonderful. Colors are extraordinary, there is an intense vivacity and I am sure that every kid will appreciate this story.
It's a story this one that, after all wants to speak at the heart of all that children too alone for a reason or another.
A moment of escapism but also reason for hope: that hope for original friends that will let discover and reveal a reality seen under many different and more interesting lenses and that will make the difference in the existence of all the Gaspard of this world.
Sometimes, solitude pays!
I thank Les Editions Matiniere for this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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