By Mariajo Ilustrajo (author) , Mariajo Ilustrajo (illustrator)
"Prize winning illustrator creates wonderful story about the power of love and friendship"
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What do you do if you are a large polar bear lost in a city? Very sensibly you try to find someone to help you get back to the North Pole. All the city inhabitants are much too busy to answer a question – rushing about all over. So, you join a queue and wait for your turn – unfortunately this is for coffee! Bear is not a fan of the takeaway soy latte he gets handed (the expression on his face is a delight!)
Next, he finds a less than helpful ‘help desk’ which hands him a tube map. Unfortunately, the North Pole is not on the map! But whilst he is on the tube he is greeted by a small girl – finally a friendly face in the big city. Through a mixture of amusing encounters with life in a house with the girl and her family, they eventually manage to get Bear home to the North Pole.
Friendship and understanding have won out in the end. What a delightful book illustrating just how important friendship is in making anyone feel safe. Humour and laugh out loud moments in the story will engage children and adults as they read it together. Bright illustrations using the page in a variety of ways make this a visual delight from start to finish. Don’t forget to look at the end papers too – a lovely record of the friendship in colourful vignettes.
A new book from award-winning illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo, Lost is the story of a polar bear who finds himself lost, in a big concrete city. He politely asks the city folk for help but everyone is much too busy and impatient to help the newcomer. He finds himself travelling on the subway only to be noticed, finally by a little girl.
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The girl takes the homesick bear by the paw and under her innocent wing. Under the nose of her seemingly unaware mum, she feeds him dinner, gives him a bath and they read stories together. When the polar bear wistfully looks at a poster of the North Pole on her bedroom wall, the little girl realises that her friend needs help to get home. This is a story about the power friendship has to help you feel found, and even to transport you home.
'A gentle story of climate change and community, this is a visually stunning debut using a minimal text, richly detailed images and a limited palette of striking Pantone colours.' - The Bookseller
Mariajo Ilustrajo is a multi-award-winning author-illustrator based in the UK. Her debut Flooded published in 2022 to widespread global acclaim: it was sold into 22 languages, won a score of prestigious literary prizes and received glowing international reviews. Her second and third books Lost (2023) and I Hate Love Books (2024) were published to the same fanfare, both shortlisted for Carnegie Medals for Illustration, with her fourth book Oh, Carrots publishing in paperback in 2026, alongside new picture book Unexpected Guests .
Mariajo loves to cook and to draw, and fills dozens of sketchbooks with her daily scribbles.
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A new book from award-winning illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo, Lost is the story of a polar bear who finds himself lost, in a big concrete city. He politely asks the city folk for help but everyone is much too busy and impatient to help the newcomer.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Lost and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
Lost features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Recommendations, Animal Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Stories about Family and Friends, Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Lost was written by Mariajo Ilustrajo and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books an imprint of Quarto Publishing PLC
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