Some Sunny Day

by Adam Baron

Overview

A funny and incredibly moving new novel of our times by one of the most talented children’s book authors working today, perfect for fans of Wonder, Frank Cottrell-Boyce or The Boy at the Back of the Class.

Cymbeline Igloo is BORED. Bored of home learning, bored of lockdown, bored of not being able to DO anything. And to make things even worse, his mum accidentally gave away his favourite football shirt.

But then Mrs Stebbings, the beloved school cook, is taken into hospital, and suddenly coronavirus seems much closer to home. When Cym starts a project all about Mrs Stebbings’ childhood in World War II, he can’t know that it’s the beginning of something incredible and even dangerous.

Exploring the place where her street once stood, he finds a tent, a strange girl wearing HIS SHIRT, and a mystery that will change absolutely everything. Because the past is more present than Cymbeline can possibly know – and the most amazing thing is how much one small person can do RIGHT NOW…

Some Sunny Day is a story of hope, kindness and the history we all make every day, no matter who we are.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008499655
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/04/2022
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Adam Baron is the author of five successful novels and has, in his time, been an actor, comedian, journalist and press officer at Channel 4 television (as well as things he’s too embarrassed to mention). He now runs the widely respected MA in Creative Writing at Kingston University London. Adam lives in Greenwich, South London, with his wife and three young children. He wrote Boy Underwater (his first novel aimed at younger readers) because they told him to. While still in the flush of youth he knows what his final words are going to be: ‘clear the table’.

Editorial Reviews

2022-07-27
The Covid-19 lockdown brings changes to nearly every part of Cymbeline Igloo’s life and London neighborhood.

Minor triumphs like scoring the last bottle of ketchup from the grocery’s half-empty shelves notwithstanding, most of those changes are for the worse—Cym’s prospective stepsisters and stepdad are stranded in New Zealand; suddenly he’s distance schooling and can’t even meet his friends just to kick a ball around; and in a disastrous fit of housecleaning, his mum has thrown out his priceless signed soccer jersey. Worst of all, though, is the news that octogenarian school lunch lady Mrs. Stebbings been taken to the ICU. Cym is a lad of deep feelings and sharp sensations, traits that both lighten the load (describing the taste of Mrs. Stebbings’ sticky toffee pudding: “like a thousand very small angels climbing into your mouth and setting off a million golden explosions on your tongue”) and prime readers for the heartfelt and emotionally climactic get-well video he goes on to orchestrate. But along with yet another near-death experience for the resilient protagonist of Boy Underwater (2022), Baron tucks in a subplot involving newly arrived refugees from Syria and Eritrea on the way to an upbeat, if not tragedy-free, ending. The refugees and some established characters add diversity to the largely White-presenting cast.

An appealing early entry for the pandemic fiction list: light in tone but grounded in serious incidents and themes. (Fiction. 9-12)

Kirkus Reviews