We Go to the Park: A Picture Book

Description: "A lyrical meditation on going to the park to play, which extends into a reflection on life itself"--

Brief description: Beatrice Alemagna has written and illustrated dozens of children's books, which have received numerous awards all over the world and have been translated into 14 languages. The author-illustrator of two New York Times Best Illustrated books, she has also been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award seven times and shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award twice. Enchanted Lion has published four of her picture books: The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy; Child of Glass; Telling Stories Wrong; and the forthcoming You Can't Kill Snow White, a picture book for teens and adults, published under Enchanted Lion's Unruly imprint. Born in Bologna, Italy, Alemagna lives and works in Paris, France.

Review Quotes: A Kirkus Best YA Book of 2024!
One of Maria Popova's Marginalian Favorites of 2024!
One of Betsy Bird's Caldenotts of 2024!
Selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2025!

STARRED REVIEW! ★ "Two globally acclaimed creators--author Stridsberg and illustrator Alemagna--join forces in this boundary-pushing picture book for older readers translated from Swedish. Positioning the park as a liminal space, the spare, poetic text and beautifully unsettling art explore its endless possibilities as children play and wander... As readers explore these surreal, dreamlike landscapes that contain both rich dark colors and bright, intense ones, they become immersed in text that can be interpreted as a meditation on childhood's fleeting and changeable nature... Contemplative teens on the cusp of independence and adult readers nostalgic for the mysteries and wonders of their early years will linger and ponder. Wondrously strange and wonderfully evocative."--Kirkus