Black Dog by Levi Pinfold is a wonderful tell of overcoming fear and anxieties for children of all ages. He manages to create a book both reassuring and fun for the very young, while also deep and provocative for the older ages. By the way, can you find the toy octopus on each two-page spread showing the inside of the house (except the very last page)?

A stray dog comes to a house and each family member who sees it thinks it's bigger and bigger, until they are barricading themselves behind the furniture, trying to make sure the apparently T-Rex size dog doesn't know they're home.I like the idea that the story could be about confronting your fears and realising that your problems can be seen as bigger than they actually are.

Finally, back to the size of a normal hound, the Black Dog is welcomed into the Hope household as their newest addition. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The change of size throughout the story was fun and the illustrations of the dog are very endearing.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. With its frosty cover and thick pages, it could be a cherished favorite in anyone's home, to be experienced time after time.

The visually stunning illustrations which accompany the text also help reinforce the metaphor and invite high levels of inference from the children.The author wrote and illustrated this ingenious book portraying the ideal of fear from various perspectives. It's not scary, it's sweet and has a positive "moral", if you will, without reading like a moral tale. At the age of seven, Levi went to watercolour classes where he was introduced to the medium that he still works in. Questo libro parla di paura e di apparenza, di inganni,di come le difficoltà non faranno altro che crescere e ingigantirsi sempre di più se non vengono affrontate né conosciute, ma parla anche di amore, di coraggio e di affetto. Levi's use of detail, lyrical storytelling and the stylised realism of his illustrations proved a winning combination.

Le illustrazioni sono qualcosa di fenomenale, ricchissime di dettagli ed estremamente suggestive, proprio come in una fiaba.Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. The approach: I love that the parents are part of the group that's afraid of the dog and that the little girl is the one who sees past it all. As a child he absorbed himself in books and comics which were big influences on him as he grew up, as well as fine art as an adult. But really, for us, the story was about the sweet collection we can have with animals, especially animals in need. Most of the two-page spreads have a full page of color illustrations, paired with smaller, sepia-toned pictures that frame the narrative.