Cloud Babies
Eoin Colfer author M Chris Judge illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Walker Books Ltd
Published:5th Oct '23
Should be back in stock very soon
From Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, comes a truly compelling, empathy-building book based on real life events in illustrator Chris Judge's own life.
Erin’s favourite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mum and dad. She calls them her "cloud babies". One day, Erin falls very ill. She has to spend a long time in hospital but she still manages to find comfort and joy in spying cloud babies through the windows with her new hospital friends. When Dr Bernadette tells Erin that even though there would still be some "hospital days", she can now go home, she is so excited. But being back at school is not at all what she expected. Erin must reconcile the comforting, safe world she has built for herself inside the hospital with the world outside that has now become unfamiliar to her. But with her Mum and Dad’s love and guidance, and with the support of her school teacher and friends, Erin realizes that by sharing her world, and her cloud babies, she will find happiness in being herself once more. Sensitively told and vibrantly brought to life on the page, this is a truly powerful source of guidance, acknowledgement and, ultimately, comfort.
From two of our best children’s writers and illustrators, Eoin Colfer and Chris Judge, this beautiful book reminds us all to take a moment to enjoy the wonder of our skies and our children’s imaginations. Buy a copy, read it in a garden or park, and spend some time looking up, to find your own cloud babies. * Sunday Times, “The 60 children’s books you should buy this Christmas as chosen by the booksellers of Ireland” *
Two giants of Irish children’s books come together to create this engaging story […] The illustrations, inspired by Judge’s A Daily Cloud Instagram page which he started during the Covid lockdowns, are wonderfully atmospheric and will make any reader smile. * Children's Book Highlights, Irish Independent *
This touching picture-book account of imagination, illness and recovery draws on Judge's own experience of supporting a child through treatment for leukaemia. * the Guardian, “Children and teens roundup” *
featured in The School Librarian's list of "Editor's Picks for empathy" * The School Librarian *
The clever cloud illustrations will make any reader smile. * Irish Independent, 56 cracking reads to keep kids entertained this Christmas *
- Short-listed for The Irish Book Awards 2022 (Ireland)
ISBN: 9781529512700
Dimensions: 288mm x 248mm x 3mm
Weight: 225g
40 pages