Leave with Me
No. of pages 24
Published: 2018
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Leave with Me is a children's story about leaving the safety of home and discovering the great world outside. Meet a Leaf named Lila, her family of leaves, and her worldly-wise friend Swithin the Swift, who encourages Lila to turn her fear of the unknown into confidence and excitement about the future.
In their first collaboration, Jack Terry's tender adaptation of 9-year-old Madeleine Gale's gentle parable about growing up, bathes in a modern tableaux of beautifully illustrated nature scenes, hand-drawn by emerging art talent James Weston Lewis.
This book seeks to reunite readers with the beauty, mystery and possibility of the great English rural tradition, and will be a pleasure for picture-book lovers of all ages.
There are 24 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2018 by Troubador Publishing .
Madeleine Gale was nine year's old when she wrote Leave With Me. Jack Terry trained as a French teacher, and helped to make her story come to life. James Weston Lewis works using a combination of traditional techniques and digital media, and takes his inspiration from a wide range of sources, including 1930's printmaking, mid-century children's comics, architecture, horticulture, literature and history.