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O primeiro dia
O primeiro dia
O primeiro dia

Technical specs

Original title: O primeiro dia
40 pages / 155 x 180 mm
ISBN: 978.989.9061.09.5 / RRP: 12,50€
1st edition: May 2022
© Rights sold: English, Korean

The first day

Henrique Coser Moreira

(Portuguese edition)

We all remember those days when we had to stay at home
(no use to remember why).

Those days weren’t easy, and all we wanted was the world back: the streets, the parks, the swings, our friends, our grandparents.

And then that day came, and it felt so good to start again: to put on our shoes and go back out there for new adventures!

This book helps us remember that first day, the day of the first return.
So that we never forget. So that we celebrate!

A silent graphic novel for small readers.

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Winner of the 4th edition of the SERPA/Planeta Tangerina International Award for Picture Books

“We believe the author approached the theme exceptionally, exploring and turning the moment of leaving home into something naive and magical, with humour while paying attention to the details.” (from the jury’s veredict.)

This book is part of the Mini-micro collection.

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Technical specs

Original title: O primeiro dia
40 pages / 155 x 180 mm
ISBN: 978.989.9061.09.5 / RRP: 12,50€
1st edition: May 2022
© Rights sold: English, Korean

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Awards and recognitions

Seal of Distinction 2022 — Caminhos de Leitura

Special Mention — BolognaRagazzi Award (BRAW) 2023, “Comics – Early Reader” category

Selected — Illustrators Exhibition, Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2023

Recommended — Portuguese National Reading List

Winner — 4th Serpa International Award for Picturebooks

Winner — Golden Island, Nami Concours 2023

What they say

This wordless comic delights in its fluid employment of the basic mechanics of the comics form just as its child protagonist delights in the simple pleasures of the first day of spring. Tiny, elegant, sweet yet still rigorous, this minimalist book is a miniature delight.
Jury, BRAW 2023

The first day is a silent, sensitive, delicate and imaginative comic book aimed at smaller readers, helping them to celebrate the first day back in so-called normal life, after a long time away.
Julia Martins, Deus Me Livro, 5/10/2022

The protagonist’s boundless energy propels the story: in one early spread, she’s so eager to get outside that her body flies headlong toward the door—readers see her from a side view—only to be halted by a parent who reminds her to put on her shoes. It is playful and exceptionally funny moments like this that make the story sing.
The Horn Book, Julie Danielson, December 2023

Moreira’s deceptively simple art is expressive, relying less on detail than on shape, line, and movement to evoke the fantastical experience of a beautiful day outside.
Kirkus reviews, December 2023

Giving a Totoro-esque vibe, vibrant primary and secondary colors lend energy to Coser Moreira’s stylistically unadorned drawings, whose minimally detailed protagonist communicates the season’s uplifting capabilities.
Publishers Weekly, December 2023

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