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The Unwinding

by Jackie Morris

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This is a book for dreamers. Its purpose? To ease the soul. Longlisted for the 2021 Kate Greenaway Medal "A quiet masterpiece . . . a love story, a hope story, a story out of time, out of stricture, out of the narrow artificial bounds by which we try to contain the wild wonderland of reality because we are too frightened to live wonder-stricken.”—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings From award-winning writer & illustrator Jackie Morris, a book that enters the realm of dreaming. With its combination of lush illustration and creative storytelling, this book is destined to become a classic. The paintings between these covers were worked in the between times—between waking and dreaming, during the unwinding of the soul, when the pressures of work were too much.…

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"As I leaf enchanted through The Unwinding (public library) by the English artist and writer Jackie Morris, this quiet masterpiece dawns on me as the pictorial counterpart to Smith’s — a small, miraculous book that belongs, and beckons you to find your own belonging, in the “Library of Lost Dreams and Half-Imagined Things.”"
Favorite Books of 2020 · themarginalian.org
"The Unwinding, the fabulous book by illustrator/writer Jackie Morris. It's my nighttime fairy tale, before I turn out the light."
By the Book: Jacqueline Winspear Maisie · nytimes.com