Rémi, eight years old, has a bad dream. His friend Sybillie, with whom he spends a week at a scout camp, advises him to tell his parents. The young boy therefore writes them a letter, to which he attaches a drawing and an autumn leaf.
Through this simple and touching story, illustrated with delicate drawings in colored pencils, Anne-Marie Theubet Schaffter evokes the revelation to a child of the death of her brother at a young age. “The history of the family will be reshaped following this event,” she explains. “Let’s be attentive to our dreams, they have lots of things to tell us. And if we share them, it can improve the quality of life. our family relationships, or at least develop them.”
Dreams, like a raw material
The author says she writes down all her dreams in notebooks. The practice helps her understand what will happen to her and make decisions, she says. “It’s also a way of putting them at a distance, of getting them out of your head.” Whether they are good or bad, she emphasizes never fleeing them, but exploiting them, like a raw material. Anne-Marie Theubet Schaffter “woven a story around the drawings” that she had initially made in Roche-d’Or and Estavayer-le-Lac. “Making illustrations, then a story, is my way of proceeding. I find that it is richer than doing the opposite.”
Readings and workshops
She entrusted the rereading of her work, inspired by a niece who lost a child, to Isabelle Volpato, Lucie Bédat and her daughter Héloïse. These outside views allowed her to “change fundamental things” in the book, she emphasizes. She will offer a reading and a creativity workshop on Wednesday, December 4, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Porrentruy Youth Library. She will also be present on Wednesday January 8 in the premises of LARC de Caritas, in Delémont, during the afternoon, and at the Delémont Youth Library on Wednesday January 15, also in the afternoon.
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