And I Climbed, And I Climbed

Cosmo, a young boy who uses a wheelchair after falling out of a tree, explores challenges, questions, hurts, explorations, and triumphs in a debut collection of poems. His observations and reflections are perceptive, raw, hilarious, confronting, and enchanting, and he wonders if his life is gone and if there are new possibilities ahead.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 10 September 2023
Publisher: Troika Books

Cosmo, a young boy, has had his life forever changed after falling out of a tree he loved to climb. Now disabled and using a wheelchair, Cosmo longs to have a conversation with the tree. In this debut collection for children, Stephen Lightbown draws on his own personal experiences as a wheelchair user, creating a unique and utterly engaging character in Cosmo. Written in Cosmo's voice and peppered with contributions from his family, these poems take the reader on a journey of challenges, questions, hurts, explorations, and triumphs. Cosmo is endlessly open and curious, and his observations and reflections are perceptive, raw, hilarious, confronting, and enchanting. How can Cosmo come to terms with and adapt to this seismic change in his life? Is his life as he knew it gone? Could there be new possibilities ahead, and also new abilities that Cosmo doesn't yet know he possesses? And will the tree ever reply to his number one question: why?

Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912745296