The generation of wooden benches

I was eleven when I stopped sitting on wooden benches. Those sensible wooden benches whose tops are covered in straw plaits. These wooden benches carry the weight of time and I’m neither old enough nor strong enough to carry it when I sit down.

Narrated in the first person, The generation of wooden benches tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl who writes a composition for school dedicated to her grandparents, figures very present in her growing up. As the book begins: “I was eleven years old when I stopped sitting on wooden benches”, we realize that the main character recently lost her grandfather. We travel through her memories of him, with the help of imaginary friends, looking for ways to honor him.
It is a story dedicated to all the grandchildren of ‘memory grandparents’, in the hope that we will find them again in the simplest things like wooden benches with straw braids.

Authors: Sara Brandão and Luísa Coelho
Type: Picture book
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 20,5 cm x 23,5 cm
Pages: 100 pages

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