What You Need to be Warm by Neil Gaiman

Author:Neil Gaiman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Children
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Published: 2013-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

to contrast what the reader sees is happening with what the poem is saying about that delicious

moment of being snuggled, carefree, under blankets.

As a child we moved a lot. I remember makeshift curtains for privacy and suitcases always in the

room, ready to move on. Now, in middle age, I have just bought my first house. The attic bedroom is

lined with beams and has a little window like the one in the image, so this illustration is also

a personal symbol of how things can turn out to be okay.

Pam Smy

Places we slept as children:

they warm us in the memory.

We travel to an inside from the outside.

To the orange flames of the fireplace

or the wood burning in the stove.

Breath-ice on the inside of windows,

to be scratched off with a fingernail,

melted with a whole hand.

The text is about that warm fire in a house and the frost on the windowpanes and melting the

frost with your hands. The composition is made from the point of view of someone standing

outside looking inside at the person who is melting the frost while there’s a reflection of the fire

on the window. I thought of an old Swedish or Finnish cottage with this little strange person

inside that smiles secretly towards the spectator from the outside.

Daniel Egnéus

Frost on the ground that stays in the shadows,

waiting for us.

Wear a scarf.

Wear a coat.

Wear a sweater.

Wear socks.

Wear thick gloves.

The scarves, coats and sweaters act as armour from the figures’ harsh, dark surroundings, as they

wrap around the family in a protective, intimate glow. I wanted the parents to be shown wrapping

the child up in these warm clothes, as they all cling together to keep each other safe and warm.

These individual clothes, although small in isolation, when collected together,

create a cascade of light and a sense of hope.

Beth Suzanna

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