What would you like to be?

‘What would you like to be?’ is a picture book for early readers that is built from a repetitive narrative structure and adding characters chained together. Rebeca dreams of being a fish, the fish would like to be an owl, the owl admires the qualities of the crocodile... and so on with other domestic and wild animals, until a circular ending that leads readers to a wise conclusion: imagination allows us to be whatever we want. Arianna Papini presents a simple narrative approach that is combined with flat, schematic illustrations in soft colours and textures created using the collage technique. The result is a complete reading that, between one page and another, introduces visual clues to make us part of the creative game. From the fantastic union of two characters, original hybrids emerge: a fish with legs, an owl with fins, a crocodile with wings... configuring a peculiar animalarium that can continue beyond the pages of the book.