Tomato Sandwich is this little something.
Everything about this book is squishily delicious.
A small,
twirly girl called Ottliy with magic fairy wings, a tiny little dog with
carefree boldness, and a great big kind dad whose pants stay up
I-don’t-know-how, all somehow just wiggle their respective ways into your
heart.
Multi award winning Caroline Magerl has created this as a ‘wordless’ picture book. So, the reader is called to create meaning through their own interpretation of warm, engaging and scribbly pictures.
The story
of Tomato Sandwich simply emerges onto the page as you continue to
wonder and re-look and ponder all of the possibilities.
The
illustrations aren’t defined and neat with lines on the edges – they’re messy
and chaotic and they take you into a whirlwind of delightful, definite maybes. In
fact sometimes, there are just so many small illustrations on the page
that the reader gets to choose in which order they will run their eyes over the
double spread.
This book is a welcome reminder to not colour between the lines. That you can follow the colour, or follow the scribble, or follow the moment.
It’s also a reminder that after you’ve been immersed in the magic and colour and movement and bright, shiny, sparkly bits, you’ll feel so much better that a tomato sandwich made with love, might just be the best thing of all.
This book
makes everything taste better.
Title: Tomato Sandwich
Author/Illustrator: Caroline Magerl
Publisher: Walker Books, $25.99
Publication Date: 2 April 2025
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781760658045
For Ages: 4 - 9
Type: Picture Book
