SuitabookMi and Museum City
Linda Sarah
- Reading
- Read the main story first, then revisit the illustrations slowly. Invite the reader to find labels, compare museums and invent one new museum without requiring every visual detail to be explained.
- Themes
- Loneliness and companionship: Mi feels lonely and bored, then encounters Yu through a beautiful sound; they make songs and develop ideas together. The story clearly presents companionship and shared creativity as important changes in Mi’s situation, but the extracts do not establish a single explicit message about loneliness.
- Imagination and public spaces: Mi and Yu want the mayor to open museums devoted to playful, unusual subjects rather than the city’s existing uninteresting collections. The book playfully criticises the city’s dullness while presenting museums and civic change as settings for imagination; it does not reject museums generally.
- Worth knowing
- Mi begins bored and lonely, and most of the city’s museums are portrayed as dull before the story introduces more playful possibilities. This contrast may merit gentle discussion rather than concern.