A family leaves home, carrying a suitcase, a backpack, and some snacks. It is quiet and dark inside, until the people in the picture frames on their table climb out of the frames, turn on the lights, and have a holiday of their own. Everyday household objects become useful in different ways, and the way the people interact with them (and each other) is amusing. The family dog alerts them to the family's return, and they race back up to their frames, leaving only one item out of place for the family to wonder about.
The letter from the editor at the beginning of this book, translated from Italian, says that because the author trusts his young readers, it was not necessary to put words in the story. The reader is left to the power of the images. If readers have a difficult time following the story, it is suggested to have the child tell the parent, page by page, the extraordinary things that they are seeing take place.
Chiuso Per Ferie [Closed for Holiday] by Maja Celija. Italy: Topipittori, 2006. [9788889210109]
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