Portugal
144
Couto, Mia (text)
Wojciechowska, Danuta
(illus.)
O gato e o escuro (The
cat and the darkness)
Lisboa : Caminho, 2001. - [28] p.
ISBN 972-21-1415-8
Cat - Night - Imagination – Disobedience
The fur of Pintalgato, a young, tigered tomcat, changes over night into a
black coat darker than the gloomiest night. His curiosity is responsible for
this transformation; why had he ignored his mother's warning to get nowhere near
the »light that leads to the other side« on his nightly roams? The encounter
with the darkness has made him dark, too. In the end, it becomes clear that
darkness - the realm to which we attribute our fears - needs the same amount of
loving attention as Pintalgato receives from his mother. With the poetic,
symbolic text of this colourfully illustrated book, the well-known author from
Mozambique enters the stage of children's literature. (8+)