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Dyfais Ffion
'A super story about a girl determined to bring her community together using her imagination.' Karl Duke
'The most fabulous illustrations I have ever seen!' Book Read 2 Day
'A wonderful story of accidentally on purpose creating a community. Gorgeous.' It's All About Stories
Caretaker’s daughter Fili is sad to see her city neighbours hustle in and out, too busy to talk. But will feeling sad help – or is a bit more imagination needed? Fili gets to work creating a mysterious something that just might build little bridges between them all.
'The most fabulous illustrations I have ever seen!' Book Read 2 Day
'A wonderful story of accidentally on purpose creating a community. Gorgeous.' It's All About Stories
Caretaker’s daughter Fili is sad to see her city neighbours hustle in and out, too busy to talk. But will feeling sad help – or is a bit more imagination needed? Fili gets to work creating a mysterious something that just might build little bridges between them all.
36 pages, Paperback
Published November 10, 2022
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July 30, 2022
Fili lives in a tall building with lots of homes - basically flats. She doesn't like that no-one communicates with each other, they just get on with their days solo.
One day she decides to make something, a big invention. Everyone coming and going from the flats asks her what she is making but she doesn't know. Over time the residents become intrigued and offer to help and work out what the invention is.
What a fascinating book this is. The Invention is a wonder children's picture book that shows a very clever young girl who comes up with a novel idea to bring people together.
I love the full-page illustrations too, which are mainly in single colour except for the odd item (s) in the image which are colourful.
This is a beautiful story with a wonderful message within.
One day she decides to make something, a big invention. Everyone coming and going from the flats asks her what she is making but she doesn't know. Over time the residents become intrigued and offer to help and work out what the invention is.
What a fascinating book this is. The Invention is a wonder children's picture book that shows a very clever young girl who comes up with a novel idea to bring people together.
I love the full-page illustrations too, which are mainly in single colour except for the odd item (s) in the image which are colourful.
This is a beautiful story with a wonderful message within.
August 12, 2022
This is such a brilliant story! Fili lives in a small space in a big building, a flat, with her dad who looks after the building. Every day Fili sees people walking in and out of the block of flats, and everyday everyone is silent, keeping to themselves and not talking to anyone. Fili wants to change things so she starts making an invention. Every day she works on building more and more of the Invention, and slowly people start to talk to her, asking her about it. This paperback is filled with thick matt pages of some great illustrations and text.
I really enjoyed this story, showing what life can be like living in a block of flats where you hardly know anyone, an unfortunate reality for many today. Fili doesn’t like seeing all the glum looking people just walking by silently so she begins making an invention. As she creates her invention, put together from all sorts of random objects, people start to notice and day by day she gets more people interacting with her, asking what the invention will be and when it will be ready.
I like how the illustrations in this story reflect, at first, the atmosphere of the people in the building. Most of the illustrations are a dull colour, showing how everyone is just a dull background person living their mundane lives. But some things including Fili are colourful, making her stand out against the sad looking building and she feels alive compared with everyone and everything else. As the story moves on and more people begin to notice Fili’s invention and begin to talk with her, there is more colour to the people and the pages in general. The illustrations are brilliant, I really love the way Fili looks, her happy expressions and the way everyone else looks at first, glum, staring at their phones, and later more animated and happy as the story moves on.
The ending is really clever, I love how everyone gets involved and how Fili’s invention works in the most perfect way, even if it still makes little sense. The story really is a brilliant one, ending with a positive note as the flats’ occupants focus more on Fili and her invention rather than their own lives. There are lots of interesting things to spot in the pictures like what the various people are doing in the flats and I just love how happy this book made me feel after reading it. It’s definitely a positive book, showing how even in glum circumstances there’s always something positive that can happen, how people can be brought together. Definitely a picture book I’d recommend.
-Thanks to Graffeg for a free copy.
I really enjoyed this story, showing what life can be like living in a block of flats where you hardly know anyone, an unfortunate reality for many today. Fili doesn’t like seeing all the glum looking people just walking by silently so she begins making an invention. As she creates her invention, put together from all sorts of random objects, people start to notice and day by day she gets more people interacting with her, asking what the invention will be and when it will be ready.
I like how the illustrations in this story reflect, at first, the atmosphere of the people in the building. Most of the illustrations are a dull colour, showing how everyone is just a dull background person living their mundane lives. But some things including Fili are colourful, making her stand out against the sad looking building and she feels alive compared with everyone and everything else. As the story moves on and more people begin to notice Fili’s invention and begin to talk with her, there is more colour to the people and the pages in general. The illustrations are brilliant, I really love the way Fili looks, her happy expressions and the way everyone else looks at first, glum, staring at their phones, and later more animated and happy as the story moves on.
The ending is really clever, I love how everyone gets involved and how Fili’s invention works in the most perfect way, even if it still makes little sense. The story really is a brilliant one, ending with a positive note as the flats’ occupants focus more on Fili and her invention rather than their own lives. There are lots of interesting things to spot in the pictures like what the various people are doing in the flats and I just love how happy this book made me feel after reading it. It’s definitely a positive book, showing how even in glum circumstances there’s always something positive that can happen, how people can be brought together. Definitely a picture book I’d recommend.
-Thanks to Graffeg for a free copy.
January 21, 2023
Personally I was not a fan of this book - a little too Quentin Blake in style for my tastes - but I suspect young children might enjoy this book with a theme about one person starting out on a project and drawing others in.
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