All Better! - Softcover

Winter colds don't stand a chance against Inese Zandere's delightful poems in All Better ... Zandere's rich reframing of illness, from the common cold to more serious, hospital-worthy woes, should force a smile from the most miserable patient, while Reinis Petersons's illustrations will also gladden the heart. * The Irish Times * Winter colds don't stand a chance against Inese Zandere's delightful poems in All Better, a joyful collection which has been reimagined for this English translation by Catherine Anne Cullen. Zandere turns germs into Jellylegs, temperatures into cheeky red imps and all the tools a doctor pokes and prods you with into instruments that are far more interesting than scary. Who could resist the X-ray specs of Ultan Ulrich, the "Secret Agent Ultrasound" who "went to a special school for spies - all that stuff beneath your skin [he] can visualise", or Eliza Analyser with her "magic goggle eyes, The doctors collect samples for her to analyse"? Zandere's rich reframing of illness, from the common cold to more serious, hospital-worthy woes, should force a smile from the most miserable patient, while Reinis Petersons's illustrations will also gladden the heart. * The Irish Times *

Everyone hates going to the doctor - taking their medicine, having their temperature taken, maybe having to go for surgery. This collection of poems and rhymes helps to make being sick a little less scary, with poems about broken bones, the chickenpox, having an injection and many more - with characters that will make young readers smile and laugh. Children can sing along to Owen's Broken Bone Blues, meet Ultan Ulrich Ultrasound - the man who can look right into your insides with his magical powers - and Eliza Analyser, who looks at all your cells under the microscope. Translated from Latvian and retold for the English market by award-winning Irish poet Catherine Ann Cullen.