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An intrepid girl discovers the value of the tangled, knotty side of life in Loose Threads, a picture book inspired by a Palestinian scarf, from Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Isol.
Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
Lila lives in an idyllic village, where everything has its place. It's as beautiful and perfect as the scenes in her grandmother's embroidery. But some believe that just on the flipside of this orderly village lies the Other Side-a messy and wild world, filled with merry inhabitants and strange beasts. Lila often visits just such a place in her dreams.
Lila is constantly losing things, and when her mom demands an explanation, Lila decides that her lost possessions must be falling down into the Other Side. And so, she declares that all she has to do to fix things is mend the holes between her world and the Other Side. It's a genius idea-nothing will ever go missing again! But as Lila soon learns, some holes don't need sewing up, and mending can also mean a suffocating shutting out...
Inspired by one of her favorite scarves, here Isol spins a tale that celebrates the different worlds that are all part of life's rich tapestry.
Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
Lila lives in an idyllic village, where everything has its place. It's as beautiful and perfect as the scenes in her grandmother's embroidery. But some believe that just on the flipside of this orderly village lies the Other Side-a messy and wild world, filled with merry inhabitants and strange beasts. Lila often visits just such a place in her dreams.
Lila is constantly losing things, and when her mom demands an explanation, Lila decides that her lost possessions must be falling down into the Other Side. And so, she declares that all she has to do to fix things is mend the holes between her world and the Other Side. It's a genius idea-nothing will ever go missing again! But as Lila soon learns, some holes don't need sewing up, and mending can also mean a suffocating shutting out...
Inspired by one of her favorite scarves, here Isol spins a tale that celebrates the different worlds that are all part of life's rich tapestry.
Extent: 76 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: Full-color illustrations throughout
Publication date: 2024-08-22
Size: 21.6 x 16.8 cm
ISBN: 9781592703920
Praise for Loose Threads
Selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2025A Bookstagang Best of 2024 Picture Book Selection, Future Classic One of Evanston Public Library’s “101 Great Books for Kids List of 2024” One of Betsy Bird's Caldenotts of 2024Bookishly Delightful's Best Picture Book in Translation of 2024 Selected for the Children Book Council’s Summer 2024 Showcase: Imagination Celebration“Existing alongside Leilah’s beautiful, orderly village is another, chaotic world called the Other Side... Inspired by a traditional hand-embroidered shawl that she received on a visit to Palestine, Isol’s eye-catching, unique illustrations feature photographs of its patterns; the outward-facing side is the backdrop to Leilah’s village, while the reverse sets the scene for the Other Side... [A] clever, playful tale... Whimsical and imaginative.”
Kirkus Reviews
“Brilliantly realized, this is a charming, unusual fable of two worlds, each the reverse of the other but ever in balance.”
Booklist
An embroidered shawl’s underside represents an alternate realm in this inventive picture book... Celebrates the fascinating reverse side of intricate stitching patterns.
Publishers Weekly
“The celebrated Argentine picture-book creator Isol presents 7- to 9-year-olds with parallel realms in Loose Threads, an illustrated story that plays out on either side of an embroidered cloth. On one side houses and flowers appear in neat stitching, while the obverse shows a mess of knots and dangling threads. On the tidy side lives a little girl named Leilah who’s forever losing things—keys, gloves, colored pencils… An affectionate coda, meanwhile, reveals that the dwellers on the fabric’s untidy side are indeed as fantastical as Leilah could hope and that they enjoy putting her ‘gifts’ to stylish use.”
Wall Street Journal
About the Author
Isol is an Argentinian author and illustrator of children’s books. She has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, has twice been selected as a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and has won a Golden Apple at the Bratislava Biennial of Illustration. With over 20 titles published in various languages, her specialty is narration through the dialogue between image and word. Isol lives with her family in Buenos Aires.
Lawrence Schimel is a full-time author, writing in both Spanish and English, who has published over 120 books in a wide range of genres. He is also a prolific literary translator. He lives in Madrid.
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