Culture. Eat it
11 December 2017
Here you are The night gardener, a real wonder!
The illustrated book I’m going to tell you about is the first feature of The Fan Brothers, Terry and Eric.
Often when I speak of books, especially if illustrated, I use the word “wonder” and I can not do without because you feel astonished when you hold a small work of art like this in your hands.
In the first pages of the story, Grimloch Lane emerges gray and bored. There, at the Grimloch orphanage, there is William who spends part of his days alone.
One morning, looking at the window of his room, he does not believe his eyes: staring at him, there is a huge green owl made of leaves. William watches it until the sun goes down and the moon appearance. He wonders what it will be waiting for him the next day. The wait grows and the next day a cat appears, and the day after a rabbit and a parrot and …
Something was happening at Grimloch Lane. Something beautiful.
Nobody knows the architect, no one has ever seen The night gardener; in spite of this, people are suddenly united by wonder in front of so much beauty and unexpectedly await the next day with its prodigy.
This image of collective waiting reminds me of Christmas.
The magic, the warmth and the light that characterize it. Christmas is a thing to be lived with simplicity, the same that you can seen in the few words used and in the images of this book that gently reminds us how precious is the ability to know how to wait.
The expectation will give to little William the discovery of the identity of The night gardener and much more. Their meeting will forever change his life and that of the inhabitants of Grimloch Lane that, as in a fairytale, will treasure the beauty of small things.
Sometimes it is enough to see the world in a different light.
Reading time
one night at Grimloch Lane
Ph. Sara Cartelli
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Photos: Sara Cartelli
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Bio:
She is an art historian, optimistic and empathic by nature. She imagines a world where sow kindness enjoying the little things. She's in love with stories since she was a child, for the Eat Culture she eats books and arts. Per aspera ad astra says the only tattoo on her skin. It reminds her that the road that leads to her dreams is not always easy but that she never gives up.
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