A few months ago a friend of mine and I came up with an idea. It is a wonderful, scary, not-sure-of-we-can-do-it kind of an idea, but we have decided to pursue it anyway. Today's picture book explores how ideas grow from nothing, and how we sometimes don't really know what to do with the new ideas that we have. We see, by watching the little boy character in the story, how one can grow to love an idea, even when we are intimidated by it.
This is a book for everyone, on that is full of wisdom, humor, and truth.
What do you do with an Idea?
This is a book for everyone, on that is full of wisdom, humor, and truth.
What do you do with an Idea?
Kobi Yamada
Illustrated by Mae Besom
Picture Book
For all ages
Compendium Inc, 2014, 978-1-938298-07-3
One day a child has an idea, and out of nowhere there the
idea is. The child does not know where the idea came from, why it is here, and
what he is supposed to do with it, so he walks away from the idea, and acts
like the idea has nothing to do with him.
The idea, which
looks like an egg on legs wearing a crown, is a determined little thing. It may
be “strange and fragile,” but it does not give up on the child. The idea
follows the little boy who, worried about people might say about the idea, tries
to hide it away. The boy tries to pretend that the idea never came into his
life in the first place.
The thing is
that the idea has come into his life,
and soon he realizes that his life is “better and happier” because the idea is
there. In spite of himself, the boy begins to care about his idea and he starts
to protect and nurture it. All this attention makes the idea grow and thrive,
and the little boy’s life grows richer as well.
In this
remarkable book a powerful text is paired with gorgeous illustrations to give
readers of all ages a picture of what happens after an idea comes into the
world. You cannot undo an idea once it is there so you have to learn how to
live with it, love it and embrace it, even if it is strange and even if it
scares you a little.