Here We Are: The phenomenal international bestseller from Oliver Jeffers

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Graham Swift vardą įsiminiau nuo pirmosios jo lietuviškai išverstos knygos "Motinų sekmadienis". Jau tada kažkas sukirbėjo viduje, kad tai gali būti vienas tų autorių, kurių kūrybą aš seksiu ir kurių visos knygos bus suskaitytos. Imponavo autoriaus nepretenzingas rašymo stilius, kalbos paprastumas ir tai, kiek daug jis sugeba sutalpinti į tikrai mažos apimties savo kūrinius. Jaučiu nepaprastą prielankumą istorijoms, kurioje veiksmas vyksta cirkuose, scenose, veikia magai, jų padėjėjai. Galbūt vis bandau patenkinti tą vidinį magijos poreikį, atsiradusį dar vaikystėje, bet magiško tikrąja ta žodžio prasme pasakojimo stengiuosi nepraleisti. Ir vis dėlto, tikriausiai šį kartą lūkesčiai prasilenkė su realybe - magijos čia nedaug. Daugiau skausmo, neišsakytų žodžių, nutylėtų jausmų. Nuostabus sudėtingų tėvų ir vaikų santykių karo fone portretas, apgalvotas kiekvienas žodis, krustelėjimas, kiekviena smulkmena. An optimistic snapshot of contemporary life, this heartfelt hug of a book ought to become a classic. The book includes a huge collection of vocabulary to describe Earth. Can you make a dictionary based on these words? Y es que este libro ilustrado te invita a recordar que todos somos diferentes, pero al mismo tiempo, iguales. Te invita a recordar que eres parte de algo, de un planeta, aunque a veces en el traqueteo de la vida no te des cuenta. Por su sencillez, al ser una obra dedicada hacia los niños, Oliver Jeffers transmite todo ese amor de manera efímera, en una gama de colores brillantes y muy pocas palabras. Creo que para un niño puede resultar más sencillo de entender, porque normalmente, creo yo, son puros y no tienen la cabeza llena de pensamientos angustiantes y dolorosos como los adultos. No juzgan por religiones, aspectos o estatus. Creo que los adultos sí tendemos a hacerlo y por ello, Jeffers habla mayormente de lo que él quiere transmitir a su hijo: el mensaje del amor.

Your Year 2 class will read the passage and identify nouns verbs and adjectives. You can also take one focus i.e. nouns if you feel it would better suit your Ks1 class. Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers is a thought-provoking and stunning book, perfect for opening up discussions about wellbeing and emotions in children of all ages. Our world can be a bewildering place, especially if you’ve only just got here. Your head will be filled with questions, so this book explores what makes our planet and how we live on it. From land and sky, to people and time, these notes can be your guide and start you on your journey. And you’ll figure lots of things out for yourself. Just remember to leave notes for everyone else… Some things about our planet are pretty complicated, but things can be simple, too: you’ve just got to be kind. Evergrene was Ronnie’s home now. He was happy in it. He was happier than he’d ever been and the Robinsons were happy to have him. Their loving kindness enveloped him. (...) How could you have had one life and then simply exchange it for another?” Visai kaip ir "Motinų sekmadienis", šita Swifto knygelė - visai trumpa, bet ne tokia lyriška - apie tai, iš ko susideda gyvenimo istorija. "Motinų sekmadieny" jis rodė, kaip vienas gyvenimas nusidriekia per skirtingas soc santvarkas (s korablia na bal), pro karus, per skirtingas ekonomines sistemas, nuo vienos sistemos populiaraus modelio (tarnaitė) prie kitos sistemos madingo modelio (menininkė, rašytoja).

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He bent to kiss her forehead. It was cold to his lips and she made no sign – no smile or frown or flinch – that she knew what he was doing. And he felt that his lips were touching also the cold surface of the water, the deep heedless water under which his father lay, unknowing too.

Moments of human intimacy jostle with scenes that inspire cosmic awe, and the broad diversity of Jeffers’s candy-colored humans…underscores the twin messages that ‘You’re never alone on Earth’ and that we’re all in this together.”– Publisher’s Weekly(starred review) I am charmed. A very good birthday gift to a recently birthed child. It doesn't resemble Mo Willem's instruction manual, but it delighted me just as much. Oliver Jeffers, arguably the most influential creator of picture books today, offers a rare personal look inside his own hopes and wishes for his child–and in doing so gifts children and parents everywhere with a gently sweet and humorous missive about our world and those who call it home.

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Me invitó a la reflexión y creo yo que por ello deberían leerlo. Lo recomiendo bastante, sí que sí. It has a great way of making me appreciate that this is our place and how we treat the world is up to us.