O PRIMEIRO DIA

We all remember those days when we had to stay indoors (it’s not even worth remembering why). They weren’t easy days and, at a certain point, we just wanted the world back: the street, the parks, the swings, our friends, our grandparents. One day, better news arrived and it was really good to start over: put on our shoes and go back to our adventures again! This book is for us to remember that first day, the day of our first return. To never forget. To celebrate!

A silent comic book to young readers.

Awards and Mentions:

  • Winner — IV Serpa International Prize for Illustrated Album (a partnership between Serpa City Council and Planeta Tangerina);
  • Special Mention — “Comics – Early Reader” category, BRAW 2023;
  • Shortlisted — Illustrators Exhibition, Bologna International Fair 2023;
  • Winner — Golden Island, Nami Concours 2023
Technical Data
40 pages / 155 x 180 mm
ISBN: 978.989.9061.09.5 / RRP: €12.50
1st Edition: May 2022
© All rights reserved: Brazilian Portuguese, English, Korean

PRAISE

  • “The First Day” is a silent, sensitive, unusual, delicate and imaginative comic book, aimed at younger readers, so that they can celebrate the first day back to a so-called normal life after a long period of separation. Julia Martins, Deus Me Livro, 5/10/2022

  • An original work in all its artistic conception, endowed with great aesthetic, literary and human quality. This wordless book takes us on a visual journey that highlights the importance of small things, the attention to be paid to the details of ordinary things, present in everyday life.
    Bru Junça, Caminhos de Leitura, April 2023

  • 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

  • A joyous adventure, bright and brimming with exuberance. Booklist

  • “This wordless book celebrates—with abundant style—the arrival of spring… playful and exceptionally funny… A breath of fresh air, in more ways than one.” Horn Book (starred)