LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
February 2025 Book of the Month
Satoshi Kitamura’s picture books are immediately recognisable with their uniquely expressive line and quirky angular perspectives. A fondness for celebrating children’s imagination is a hallmark of many of his books too and it’s given full rein in this glorious new story.
Hannah is alone in the garden and wishing she had someone to play with when she spots a leaf. Deciding it looks like a violin she finds a stick bow and starts to play it. Before long, birds have joined in, then the insects in the flower beds, even the clouds in the sky until everything on earth and beyond is singing and dancing to her music.
Striking centre pages show Hannah playing her violin in an azure-blue sky surrounded by instruments. All stops for dinner, or does it? Told in deadpan style, this celebration of play and invention takes us all soaring with Hannah into a limitless sky. The opportunities it opens for talking, wondering and creating are huge.
Andrea Reece
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Hannah and the Violin Synopsis
When Hannah spots a leaf on the grass, she thinks it looks like a violin, and decides to see if she can play it. Soon everything is singing and dancing to the music! A joyful book that celebrates play, creativity and the imagination within us all.
•Shows what makes up music: instruments, voices, the sounds of nature (insects and birds), rhythm, imagination... all combine here to create a magical concert
•Shows what music helps us do: dance, sing, share our joy with others and transport us to new worlds
•Depicts lots of different instruments with gorgeously colourful and amusing illustrations
•Reminds us that simple objects can make the best toys
•By an award-winning author and illustrator translated into over 20 languages
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9781915252821 |
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6th February 2025 |
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Satoshi Kitamura |
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Satoshi Kitamura |
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Scallywag Press |
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Hardback |
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32 pages |
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Press Reviews
Satoshi Kitamura Press Reviews
Praise for Hat Tricks:
‘A masterfully crafted story for tots, impeccable in its apparent simplicity, yet with all the elements of tension, resolution and surprise needed in a good story. Perfection!’ Carousel Magazine
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About Satoshi Kitamura
Satoshi Kitamura was born in 1956 in Tokyo. He says that when he was young he read comics and admits that these have had a great influence on his style. He says he was also influenced by anything visual from a tin of sardines to the fine art of the East and the West. He was not trained as an artist, but at the age of 19 began to do commercial work. From 1976-1979 he worked as a commercial artist in Japan, working as an illustrator for adverts and magazines. He moved to London in 1979 and worked mainly at designing greeting cards. He started illustrating for Andersen Press in 1981 after he had an exhibition of his work at the Neal Street Gallery in Covent Garden.
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