hi there. i’m looking for a book that i read when i was a child (early 90’s) and my sister recomended this site.
from what i (think) can remember of the book a boy goes to bed angry (not where the wild things are!) and subsequently his foul mood starts to make the world break. first his room cracks and then later on the world becomes flooded and there is a picture of him sat on the roof of his house, leaning agains the chimney with his arms crossed as he watches things float past (at one point i think he hangs onto his bedroom door as it floats). i think the book ends with the whole world (reality) having been destroyed.
i think that the book used the colour blue a lot and my mother says that she remembers that it wasn’t very inundated with language- mostly picturesÂ
This sounds a lot like Angry Arthur written by Hiawyn Oram and illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura. A boy’s anger at being forbidden to watch television takes on the force of a storm, then a typhoon and finally grows so big it catapults him to Mars. There, he realizes he can’t remember what he was upset about. First published in 1982, Kitamura won an illustration award for this book. There’s an article about Kitamura in the Guardian which includes some of the pictures from Angry Arthur. http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/mar/14/satoshi-kitamura-illustrator-pictures
Thank you Melissa! That is perfect. The thought in my head was ‘Angry Max’, it seems I was half right! Thank you for taking the time to solve this months old puzzler for me!