7/5/2023 0 Comments Teacup by Rebecca Young![]() ![]() ![]() These are illustrations to linger over and just feel.Ī gorgeous allegory picture book sure to speak to those of us on longer or shorter journeys in our lives. The clouds are immensely lovely, conveying menace and hope as appropriate to the story. He captures the sea journey with a feeling of expansiveness, the boy and his boat small in the image and sky and sea vast around him. Ottley’s illustrations are stunningly beautiful. While we don’t truly get to know the boy himself, the book embraces the journey that people take into the unknown, whether that means leaving your family and country behind or starting a new school. Young’s text is poetic, creating moments of quietness and moments of wonder, often side-by-side. This is such a gentle book yet it speaks to larger issues of displacement, refugees and homelessness. He waits for a whisper and when it comes, he discovers another traveler has joined him. Eventually, his boat bumps into land where he moves his tree to a hill and it grows taller. Then one day, the earth in his teacup begins to sprout, growing into a tree that shelters him, gives him food, and offers hope. Sometimes it is quiet, other times dangerous, other times dramatic. The journey is long and filled with changing days at sea. ![]() Teacup by Rebecca Young, illustrated by Matt Ottley ( InfoSoup)Ī boy sets off in a boat, leaving his home behind with only a book, a bottle, a blanket and a teacup of earth from his homeland. ![]()
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