When I coloured in the world (Illustrated short stories) A book about colour and hope

Told with poetic simplicity, this book shows how creative imagination – through the use of colour and imagery – can change the world from bad to good. With a box of coloured crayons and an eraser to rub things out, one child sets out to transform the world. By rubbing out ‘hunger’ and colouring in ‘wheat’, the world can be fed. By rubbing out ‘crying’ and colouring ‘laughter’, the world gets to sing, dance and be joyful. An unusual and deceptively simple picture book that imagines a world without discrimination, poverty or inequality. This is a story that is told with poetic simplicity, offering beautiful images but also raising questions to set thoughts going in readers' imaginations as a child uses an eraser and crayons to bring happier colours to the world, replacing bad with good A child uses crayons to colour and change the world, making it a kinder, more hopeful place. Beautiful colourful images and poetic text