LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
May 2023 Debut of the Month
The young narrator of this joyful and joy-inducing picture book has a seemingly endless set of ideas of what to do ‘if I were Prime Minister’. These range from making sure that every tree would have a rope swing, to having libraries open day and night (and with ‘friendly old people’ there to read to the children); to ensuring that anyone who wanted a dog, or a bicycle, would have one, and anyone who wanted a friend could have at least two.
One plan involves play being a subject taught at school, with grown-ups having to go to nursery once a month to learn how to do it, ‘because play is for everyone, even the people who’ve forgotten how.’ No matter your age, these suggestions will set all sorts of ideas running, and it’s undeniable that the world would be a better place if they were made law.
Ella Okstad’s illustrations are vibrant and energetic, fingerprint patterns framing pages filled with blocks of colour. Text and illustrations make us feel anything is possible, and that a happier, kinder world is within our reach.
Andrea Reece
Find This Book In
| Suitable For: |
|
| Other Genres: |
|
| Recommendations: |
|
About
If I Were Prime Minister Synopsis
With disarming frankness, a young boy gives his perspective on several things the grown-ups running the country could do differently. His recommendations are both playful and profound.
How much happier would we be if all the adults went to nursery once a month to remind themselves how to play?
How much safer would we be if Christmas lights were left up all year round to light everyone’s way home?
This gorgeously-illustrated picture book is for all those children who dare to dream big and for all those adults who want to look on the world with fresh eyes.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781915244451 |
| Publication date: |
4th May 2023 |
| Author: |
Trygve Skaug |
| Illustrator: |
Ella Okstad |
| Publisher: |
Lantana Publishing |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
40 pages |
| Suitable For: |
|
| Other Genres: |
|
| Recommendations: |
|
Author
About Trygve Skaug
Trygve Skaug is a Norwegian songwriter, vocalist and poet. He is one of Norway’s bestselling poets, with over 25,000 books sold and 77,000 followers on Instagram.
This is his debut children’s book.
More About Trygve Skaug
More
Translated from Norwegian by Rosie Hedger
Rosie Hedger is an award-winning Norwegian to English translator. She completed her MA (Hons) in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has lived in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark before settling in North Yorkshire.
