This is a highly acclaimed, award-winning picture book, the first that the creator Sydney Smith has both written and illustrated and in which he hopes to have created magic, he says. 

It's about a journey, a quest, both physical and emotional which causes you to puzzle as you turn the pages, wondering who it is we're searching for. The reveal makes you gasp and tingle!

The city can be a noisy, busy, scary place, particularly if you're small.

But it can also be exciting, colourful and welcoming.

There are sirens and car horns, shouts, bangs and crashes. But there are also good hiding places, warm air vents, lots of interesting people to talk to and buskers to hear play on the streets. 

Our little protagonist tells us what it is like to be small in the city, with advice and observations. But, as we turn the pages, we don't know why it is that he knows this, or why he is sharing it with us. 

Finally we come to the last pages of the book and the heart-rending revelation of the little boy's quest. 

A beautiful, moving book for children aged three upwards, and their reading companions. You'll need to start the book all over again after swallowing the lump in your throat from the final page.