"Set during lockdown, this pitch-perfect story of a football-mad boy shows how doing little things can make a massive difference"
July 2022 Book of the Month
Brimming with kindness, and voiced with humour by its adorable Charlton-obsessed protagonist, Adam Baron’s Some Sunny Day evokes all the fears and frustrations of pandemic lockdown from a child’s perspective. With a cast of gloriously authentic characters, it’s also a beautiful tribute to the work teachers did during the pandemic, and incredibly funny, with a mystery to boot.
Cymbeline Igloo (Cym) is well and truly fed up of being locked down. His mum is super-paranoid about COVID-19 and takes social distancing to the extreme. She’s also obsessed with keeping busy, which is why a massive clear out leads to her accidently giving away Cym’s beloved signed football shirt. A powerful subplot about the experience of refugees comes to the fore when Cym discovers who has his shirt.
Then, when COVID strikes close to home and his fellow Charlton-supporting neighbour Mrs Stebbings, the much-loved school cook, is taken into hospital, Cym realises what really matters, and rallies his class to pivot their WWII history assignment into a magical project to make her feel better.
Incredibly moving (reader, I cried), Some Sunny Day also brilliantly evokes the hilarious absurdities of lockdown, from taking daily exercise with a TV personality and baking sourdough bread, to supermarket shortages, and the triumph/despair of discovering/missing out on that last pack of toilet paper or bottle of ketchup.
A truly special story that will chime with thousands of young readers, this would also make a great book to read as a class.
You can watch our exclusive interview with author Adam Baron here.
A funny and incredibly moving new novel of our times by one of the most talented children's book authors working today, perfect for fans of Wonder, Frank Cottrell-Boyce or The Boy at the Back of the Class.
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A funny and incredibly moving new novel of our times by one of the most talented children's book authors working today, perfect for fans of Wonder, Frank Cottrell-Boyce or The Boy at the Back of the Class. Cymbeline Igloo is BORED.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Some Sunny Day and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Some Sunny Day features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Interviews with Authors and Illustrators, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s, Teenage and Educational, PSHE: Family Issues, Star Books, Stories about Family and Friends, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Featured Books for 9+ readers
Paperback. £7.19, down from the £7.99 cover price. In Stock.
Some Sunny Day was written by Adam Baron and published by HarperCollins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Some Sunny Day has 305 pages
£7.19, reduced from £7.99. In Stock.
