This is a book you must spend time with. Because it
is the story of a life whose colour has
gone out of everything and all is reflected in grey. You will want to read
how this came about.
It is presented frame by intricate frame, in whole page
illustrations that depict the amount of things collected in a lifetime, and the
probability that more than half of them will be forgotten.
…You don’t
actually forget anything. You’ve collected so much stuff in your head there’s
not enough room for it all, so you throw lots of it away.
Grandad has lost something. Can his granddaughter
to help him find it? But what is it that is lost?
Colin Thompson’s story is unavoidably biographic
and valuable. The excuse that ageing is uncomfortable to talk about and
therefore is frequently avoided, steals from life. This stunning book’s theme is
memory; something people of all ages struggle with. Thompson has written about
life and its natural evolution, within a relationship between old and young. For
nothing and no one is ever the same as it, or they are, at the beginning.
For collectors of extraordinary picture books, this
is for you. Lovers of books that move you to tears and touch the heart, and
those that want to give a gift that will be treasured, this is a priceless gem
for every collection.
On the inside of the back cover is the most
beautiful set of words, This is What
Should Happen, a hymn to Old Age.
Colin Thompson began writing The Corner of My Eye in 2016. It will stay with me forever and with
all those people that take it and read it for what it is.
Title: The Corner of My Eye
Author/Illustrator: Colin Thompson
Publisher: Walker Books, $26.99
Publication Date: October 2019
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781925381931
For ages: 5+
Type: Picture Book
