9780062657602
It’s an awful, boring, rainy day, and Mom doesn’t want her boy on screens! Off he goes into the woods, where he accidentally drops his precious video game into a pond! NO! His emotions are palpable: Beatrice Alemagna imbues each moment in the book with intense color and feeling. It’s wet everywhere, and worse—there’s nothing to “do.” And then a chance meeting with four giant snails (their antennae felt like Jell-O) alters the boy—and next he finds mushrooms that resemble him in his pointy-hooded raincoat. Touching, tasting, and feeling nature is an incredible experience! Back at home, the child, altered by his chance meeting with nature, has a happy reunion with his mom, and the two share warms mug of hot chocolate in a poignant moment. Here is a story that will wake up the imagination in tiny explorers who find magic in everyday life.