Shadow Play

Shadow Play

by Kate Forsyth

Illustrated by Rosalie Street

Published by Wombat Books
ISBN 9781925563740

Shadows can be fun, they can also be scary, especially if you are like Minnie May and frightened of your own shadow that follows you everywhere. When you turn your shadow follows you, when you reach and stretch your shadow is there. Even when Minnie May crouches down her shadow is still there, just a lot smaller.

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Minnie May doesn't; want her shadow following her or being tied to her heels. This is good metaphor for younger children aged 4-8 years fearing the unknown.

The beautifully, yet whimsically illustrated book captures the essence of the story including when Minnie May's friend Ziggy appears. After talking with Minnie May and asking what she fears he shows her that his shadow follows him too, but he has fun with his shadow.

Ziggy shows her a different way of playing and living shadow and suddenly a whole new world opens up for Minnie May.

This is a positive, kind and understanding story to help kids with their fears.

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The Author

Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller. She co-wrote Searching for Charlotte about Australia's first children's novelist with her sister Belinda Murrell,. Both acclaimed authors this is their story about their ancestor, was reviewed here in schooldaysmagazine. Her most recent novel is The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of ‘The Minotaur in the Labyrinth’ myth set in Crete during the Nazi invasion and occupation of World War II, which The Washington Review called it ‘a riveting tale of courage, love, and betrayal.

The illustrator

Rosalie Street is a visual artist and illustrator working from her home studio on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Rosalie holds a BA in Fashion Design where she excelled in fashion illustration and life drawing. She has studied Costume and Set Design at NIDA and worked in theatre wardrobe departments prior to having her first solo art exhibition in 1997.

This is an independent review, I am not paid by the book publishers,

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