Winner of the 2012 Greenaway award, this truly is an inspirational story showing how any dream can be fulfilled with love and motivation. And why not try older children and use it as a source for a discussion - about families, about dreams and growing up, about loss, about poetry, about art. These are not minor finnicky points: books for children need to use better fonts to encourage the children to read, to be accessible to children and parents with eg dyslexia, and to be readable at bed-time when the lights are low. The style of illustration in this book, a mix of artwork, photographs in a collage come together to create a most unusual picture book which explores the relationship between father and son in a particularly poetic and elegant way' - Librarymice.

The illustrations really do bring this picture book to life and the size of the book make it perfect for reading to groups of children. For many books these two points would cause me to only give a single star rating, so the fact I still rate this at 4 stars say something about how good it is. And the final parting with a new child and the wonder of whether or not he will have the same dream and what he will do with it. This three-week Writing Root begins by introducing the concept of dreams and how important they are in our lives. Not only are the illustrations whimsical and creative and beautiful, the story is wonderfully touching' - Myfavouritebooks.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It shows many emotions throughout and if you get into the book its as if you can picture it in your mind. He has illustrated two other picture books for Templar: the Greenaway shortlisted Leon and the Place Between and The Winter's Child . we are drawn into a world of impossible dreams, dreams that while beautifully described and hauntingly evocative are tinged with a deep despair.

The story and illustrations work intricately together to produce an emotionally moving book which had me close to tears.

His first title for Templar Books, Leon and the Place Between, was short-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and FArTHER went on to win in 2011.

I would recommend this book for year 4 literacy classes and I would say it would be an excellent text to use in a creative writing class. This stunning picture book by significant author Grahame Baker-Smith won the Kate Greenaway medal in 2011 and explores the relationship between a father a son. Not only are the illustrations whimsical and creative and beautiful, the story is wonderfully touching' ― Myfavouritebooks. Grahame Baker-Smith, a self-taught illustrator, was inspired to create this book after his experiences of being a son and now having a son of his own.Yet the moving relationship between father and son has a bitter sweet legacy and one that carries through to the next generation. While I enjoyed reading it myself, I have bought it to share with the children I teach in upper Key Stage 2. What happens to his father is never clarified; whether he died or was lost is unclear, but his son and in the end his grandson follow his dream.

He has illustrated numerous other picture books for Templar, including The Rhythm of the Rain which won the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards and the Greenaway shortlisted Leon and the Place Between .Much later, the boy, now a young man finds himself drawn once more to his father’s drawings and failed experiments.