Looking for Atlantis
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Our illustration this month is from Going to Playschool by Sarah Garland. Sarah Garland is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. We are grateful to Bodley Head and Puffin Books for their help in producing this cover.
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Looking for Atlantis
When a 10-year-old boy's grandfather dies after a picaresque life on the seven seas, he leaves the child his sea chest, and an exhortation to seek Atlantis. The child opens the chest and, 24 teeming pages later, succeeds in his quest by accepting both the old man's death and the perpetual life of his oceanic memories. The storyline is slight and allusive, but the rhapsodic graphics of this picture book spill before the reader's eyes a bewildering wealth of worlds within worlds. A full fathom five fantasy.
