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April 2025 Debut of the Month
A brand-new fairy tale, The Old Forest Path is musician Jamie Catto’s first story for young readers and music flows through it, representing freedom, joy, the power of the imagination.
Deep in a magic forest live fairies, depicted as ethereal little ballerinas in Kanako Wakabayashi’s delicate illustrations. The fairies love to dance among the flowers, but are careful to stick to the path, all except for one, whose joy in the music of the Forest recognises no bounds.
When a piper arrives, playing tunes that enthral all the fairies, it is this one who takes his tunes to her heart, the two soulmates in their love for melody and harmony. United, they break the path for good, allowing the fairies the freedom to explore every corner of the forest.
It’s a heady, sensuous tale, lyrical in its telling and classic in feel thanks too to the Golden Age-inspired illustrations. This is a picture book for older readers, recommended to those aged eight to eighty.
Andrea Reece
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The Old Forest Path Synopsis
In an enchanted forest live magical fairies who delight in music and dance, however they always follow the old path through the woods, having been told to do so will keep them safe.
It happened one afternoon, when the sun was casting its hypnotic patterns through the branches above, that from somewhere out of sight, a new and unheard music reached the delicate ears of those magical creatures. It began as a flute but then turned into a pipe. It moved like a drum but then pulsed like a stamp.
The music reached high and yet still rumbled down low and it moved them all as it filtered so invitingly from its origin unknown. One fairy is bold enough to leave the path in search of the source of this beautiful sound.
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9781857144963 |
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10th April 2025 |
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Jamie Catto |
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Ragged Bears |
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Hardback |
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36 pages |
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About Jamie Catto
Jamie Catto is a British musician, video director, photographer, and script editor. He was a founding member of Faithless, before leaving in 1999 to form 1 Giant Leap and co-created a documentary film with the same title. He wrote the self-help book “Insanely Gifted” published in 2016 by Canongate. This is his first book for children.
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