Questão 4 - UFMS 1ª ETAPA - Manhã (PASSE) (FAPEC) 2023-2025

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A boy, a mole, a fox and a horse: the recipe for a Christmas best-seller.

When he sat down to draw a boy talking to a horse, the illustrator Charlie Mackesy was working out his own feelings. But his drawing of a horse confessing the bravest thing he's ever said was "Help" became an online sensation. The book that image inspired is now topping charts on both sides of the Atlantic, with Mackesy's publisher printing hundreds of thousands of copies to meet demand.

Mackesy, who has been a cartoonist for the Spectator and a book illustrator for Oxford University Press, says the straightforward, heartfelt conversations between the characters in The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse were drawn from "conversations I've had with my friends about what life really means, what's important; it was a way for me to think aloud on paper with words and drawings."

The first, featuring the horse and the boy, stemmed from "a conversation I had with my friend Bear [Grylls] about what courage really looked like" and "the bravest thing we'd ever done". While Grylls may be "an emblem of courage", Mackesy continued, "the bravest thing I'd ever done was when I was struggling and had the courage to ask for help. So I drew it."

"I put that up on Instagram and forgot about it, and the next thing I knew was that hospitals and institutions had been using it, and the army had been using it for PTSD, it went crazy. I wasn't aware of it. Occasionally I'd get emails saying 'I hope you don't mind we used it in our therapy unit, it's helping people realise it's a brave thing to show weakness'."

(Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/09/ boy-mole-fox-horse-christmas-bestseller-charlie-mackesy. Accessed on: october 26, 2023)

 

"It's a quotable celebration of compassion and empathy that relays the everlasting power of friends."

(Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News)
 

"Everything seen seems extremely familiar, as the drawings are highly derivative of other children's books." (Michael Talbot-Haynes Film Threat) (Source:

htps://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_boy_the mole_thefox andthe horse Accessed on: october 26, 2023)

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