The promise Story written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Laura Carlin
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The Promise is an urban fairy tale that plays out on the mean streets of a mean city. Here, a young thief tries to snatch an old woman’s bag but she cannot have it without giving something in return: The Promise. It is the beginning of a journey that will change her life and a chance to change the world for good.
A girl who is hardened by the harsh urban environment that surrounds her is transformed into a guerrilla gardener by the unexpected booty resulting from a mugging. The burgeoning wildlife opens up people’s hearts and minds and the girl moves on to multiply the magic.
In spare poetic prose, Nicola Davies has fashioned a variation on the myth of the Green Man for a modern age. Laura Carlin has drawn absorbing grey and brown cityscapes which gradually become permeated with brightly coloured birds and flowers as the girl plants ‘among rubble, ruins and rusty railings, by train tracks, tramlines and traffic lights’.
The Book read aloud
The video BBC
- Stop burning coal, oil and gas to make electricity, and heat houses, and use solar and wind power instead.
- Reduce our use of cars and aeroplanes. Switch to electric cars, bikes and walking.
- Eat less meat so we need fewer animals that produce methane.
- Insulate houses so they don’t use so much energy to keep warm.
- Reduce the amount of things we own
- Repair things when they break down
- Re-use old things
- Recycle them when they are really not working anymore.
- Everything we own, phones, TV, furniture, clothes, toys takes energy to make, that puts more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
