Tutta sua madre

A daughter struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother in this quietly powerful story from Roddy Doyle, an award-winning Irish author who makes his picture-book debut here. Opening as the ten-year-old Siobhán struggles to recall the face of the mother who died when she was three, the narr Leggi tutto

A lovely little book.Roddy Doyle is so versatile.A sweet story and I thought the artwork was perfect.

This is a lovely book full of emotion and colour. It follows the story of a young girl who cannot remember the face of her deceased mother. The first page really draws you in, we have two completely different characters. Siobhan who is colourful, inquisitive and happy, she is in the left had side of Leggi tutto

Doyle's first picture book (and I use that term very sweepingly because it's more of a story illustrated) touches on the life of Siobhan, a girl who grows under the shadow of her father's loss of his beloved wife and her anxiety and pain at losing sight of her mother who died when she was three. Alt Leggi tutto

Summary: Siobhán lives in a big house in Dublin with her father. There is only her and her father, no one else – no brothers or sisters, no grandparents, no cousins, no aunts or uncles. And no mother. Siobhán’s mother died when she was three and since her father won’t talk about her, the memory of h Leggi tutto

This is a story for children, but hey, The little prince is one of my favorite books of all time! Mum used to read it for me when I was young, and I read it every once in a awhile. You know those short stories for children which have a beautiful hidden messages in it? This story is one of them! It i Leggi tutto

This is an amazing story of a young girl learning to come to terms with her mother's death. Siobhan is like most little girls - she runs, and plays and has fun. But at ten she can no longer remember her mother's face; she is sad about this but cannot talk to her father, as he too is overcome with hi Leggi tutto