Through collaborative story telling, a child and his grandfather explore a traumatic experience they have shared.'Grandpa, tell me the story again of when we went to sea. That's a BIG story, One-Button.How does it begin? It begins with the uprooting . . .'And so Grandpa tells the story of how he and One-Button and their whole community were uprooted from their everyday lives, and how they all had to take to sea in different boats. Until one day everything changed, and they were able to return home and resume their previous lives...different, but the same.'A beautiful resonant fable about memory, love and hope - brought to life with luminous illustrations' Chris Riddell
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Sara Stanley, Bed (hons) Cambridge, specialises in creating philosophical worlds in the classroom. Using a year long story curriculum she entices the children to create their own journey through one story, many books and even more dialogues and enquiries based on their everyday play, language and storytelling. Alongside the year long story Sara Stanley share
More about Sara StanleyViviane Schwarz is the author-illustrator of the highly acclaimed picture books There Are Cats in this Book andThere Are No Cats in this Book, both of which were shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal (2009, 2012), Is There a Dog in This Book? and How to Find Gold. The Adventures of a Nose was shortlisted for the V&A illustration Award and her debut graphi
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