"It all began when the sky turned grey. Too grey! The neighbours couldn’t talk of anything else and decided to paint it in a different color. Until the day that ... CRAAAC! What should we do now?"
When I was a child my parents told me this story hundreds of times, and every time I was equally fascinated imagining the sky in all possible colours.
This story was the first Joma´s published book in the earlier 80´s, and now it´s my first illustrated children´s book. Together with Carmen Chica we updated the original version and Orfeu Negro published it with a lot of care and attention.
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