Gnu & Badger – It’s Raining

Ana Pessoa & Madalena Matoso

The gnu and the badger met a while ago, on a very windy day. This time, it’s raining! But what could be better than drinking tea and playing cards with a friend, while the rain pours outside? First you shuffle the cards: Bick, back, book… Then you deal them: Clip, clap, cloop… But, what now? How do you play cards when you don’t know how to play cards? Can you make it up? The gnu and the badger are going to find a way and they might even invite you to play with them.

A book to read as you come and go, as the cards are dealt.

Press voices

“This is the second book of the gnu & badger duo – a story of friendship, of companionship, of an openness to the unexpected, with which to invent a game in which the rules are made up as you go along. Playing with imagination, making impromptu stories.” Iêda Alcântara, Caminhos de Leitura

“This small, hardback book offers us two different stories, one for going forwards and one for going back, challenging young readers to create new stories based on the cards dealt at the end of the book – you might even want to cut out images from newspapers and magazines to add to the collection of characters and backdrops within.” Pedro Miguel Silva, Deus Me Livro

“Imagination, narration and a curiosity to listen – they all have a place here. It’s a place which is both playful and a source of unexpected and perhaps even impossible possibilities, opening a door onto the absurd.” Andreia Brites, Blimunda magazine

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