Who am I? Who are you? Together, what are we? What can we represent and create? A unique universe! These are the bases for the author’s adventure.
This book, a fairy tale not only for children, derives from these principles and from the idea of mixing fantasy and real events from everyday life. Ant really lives in the author’s home, along with its well-mannered colony that eats the crumbs of cookies scattered by a child (and by a voracious adult).
“Child and Ant”: what an odd couple! It seems impossible that two beings can live side by side, unaware of each other, until they suddenly meet. Space, time, species, and size separate them until they find something in common: love of life and the will to help others. At that point their differences are eliminated and they begin a new life together: doing, experimenting, growing together becomes their shared goal (even if, at the start, this interests only the hyper-responsible ant). Ant is wise, mature, experienced, knows life and the world around it (from its point of view!). It’s used to living in a community, to relating with others identical to it. But it doesn’t know anything about Child’s world. Intrigued by this stranger, it becomes so involved that it decides to take care of him. Child is new to life, without experience, so naïve that for a long time he doesn’t realize he has a friend for life and adventure right at his side: the tiny ant, which will accompany him as he grows, in every experience and activity.
A couple showing that living well together requires sensitivity, kindness, commitment, and the will to reveal yourself to the other. Two apparently opposite worlds that attract each other and live in harmony. A message, a manifesto for everyone, transmitted with words, images, and spaces.
A small treasure chest of lightness, poetry, and a great deal of wisdom.
A story of friendship and brotherhood in which the fundamental basis of the relationship is attention to the other.
A friendship that lights the way to accepting the world that surrounds us, the child that lives in us and with us. A small world, intimate, sensitive, invisible but perceptible by our emotions and by those of the characters
The book’s final pages proposes the “Ant Method”: by experience, this method is recommended to everyone who wants to awaken a smiling child!
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