A heartbreakingly honest account of a father's grief for his son from
the illustrious pairing of two former Children's Laureates. Very
occasionally the term non-fiction has to stretch itself to accommodate a
book that fits into no category at all. Michael Rosen's Sad Book is
such a book.
It chronicles Michael's grief at the death of his
son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19. A moving combination of
sincerity and simplicity, it acknowledges that sadness is not always
avoidable or reasonable and perfects the art of making complicated
feelings plain. It wasn't made like any other book either; Michael Rosen
said of the text, " I wrote it at a moment of extreme feeling and it
went straight down onto the page ...
Quentin didn't illustrate
it, he 'realized' it. He turned the text into a book and as a result
showed me back to myself. No writer could ask and get more than that."
And Quentin Blake says that the picture of Michael "being sad but trying
to look happy" is the most difficult drawing he's ever done...
"a moving experience."
Michael Rosen's Sad Book - Michael Rosen & Quentin Blake
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