Imagination and reality
The pair travel through increasingly fantastic landscapes and picnic aboard an opulent pirate ship, while the boundary between imagination and reality remains open.
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Sam Usher - Author
A warm, imaginative outing centres on companionship across generations. The visual journey—from heat and desert to a fantastical picnic—offers plenty to notice and discuss, without requiring a fixed answer about what really happened.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA warm, imaginative outing centres on companionship across generations. The visual journey—from heat and desert to a fantastical picnic—offers plenty to notice and discuss, without requiring a fixed answer about what really happened.
The pair travel through increasingly fantastic landscapes and picnic aboard an opulent pirate ship, while the boundary between imagination and reality remains open.
Detailed ink-and-watercolour spreads show provisions, heat, landscapes and fantastic travel. In an external Q&A, the illustrator discusses repeated practice and accepting imperfect drawings.
The journey takes place on a scorching day and includes crossing a desert before an imaginative high point.
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