Overview
A masterfully illustrated exploration of the beauty and complexity of parental love. In Torill Kove's delicate and moving story, a woman joins her peers to grasp for threads dangling from the sky, each representing an unknown opportunity. Our protagonist snags a particularly special looking thread and is whisked away on an adventure. She flies across the city and the countryside and comes down gently to meet her fate. Holding the other end of the thread is an infant girl. A mother-daughter connection is born. As love and trust grow, the thread shared between mother and daughter is pulled and stretched across new experiences, until finally, it must be broken so that the daughter can go out on her own. However, both mother and daughter keep a part of the thread that brought them together. The love in their hearts will never truly let them be separated. Adapted from the National Film Board animation of the same name, Kove's beautiful and touching portrayal of the loving bond shared by a mother and daughter was named one of the 10 best films at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Threads is a perfect keepsake for any mother-daughter relationship, and a perfect gift for Mother's Day. AGES: 7 to 11 AUTHOR: Torill Kove is an Academy Award-winning animator (The Danish Poet) whose films include the critically acclaimed Me and My Moulton and My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, which was published in 2017 as part of the launch of the National Film Board of Canada Collection. Kove works and lives in Montreal.
Full Product Details
Author: Torill Kove
Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
Imprint: Firefly Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780228100812
ISBN 10: 022810081
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 26 November 2018
Recommended Age: From 7 to 11 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children's (6-12)
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Torill Kove has adapted another of her critically acclaimed NFB short films into an illustrated story for children (in the manner of last year's My Grandmother Ironed the King's-Shirts). In Threads, a woman grasps a thread from the sky and at the other end is an infant. What follows is a meditation on mother-daughter bonds and the complexity of parental love.-- (06/01/2018)
Author Information
Torill Kove is an Academy Award®-winning animator (The Danish Poet) whose films include the critically acclaimed Me and My Moulton and My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts, which was published in 2017 as part of the launch of the National Film Board of Canada Collection. Kove works and lives in Montreal.
