Angel and the Box of Time

Angel's grandad takes a small travelling show around the cities of the USA, carrying a dancing goat and a mysterious antique chest in the back of his little truck. Angel is delighted to join him for the first time, but she becomes concerned when the dancing goat seems to vanish into the wooden chest. Angel peeks into the chest, and finds that it contains far more than she bargained for: layer upon layer of landscape, charged with visionary traces of centuries of family migration. When Angel emerges from her grand tour of the box of time, she resumes her journey into the future with her grandfather. Foreman's text is brief and embodies a looping refrain which represents the spirals of family history. His glowing depictions of vast landscapes, heroic voyages and remote communities fill the expansive pages of this big picture book with images as vast as the theme of the story. This is complex story told very simply; a physically beautiful book which presents a thought provoking narrative for all ages.