Rainbow Walkers
A girl follows The Sun on a magical journey in search for answers and ends up traveling to places more extraordinary than she could ever have imagined.
Trapped inside a mundane school routine, a girl dreams of escape. Then one day, the sun runs away. She chases it across the sky and is thrown into a world of color and magic where she forges friendships and bonds that stretch beyond memory and time.
But where will it all end? Will she find her way back? And how will the world, her friends, and her imagination be transformed in the process?
Rainbow Walkers is a beautifully illustrated novel about daring, perseverance, self-discovery, and friendship. Join us on a journey through the visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum – and beyond.
A girl follows The Sun on a magical journey in search for answers and ends up traveling to places more extraordinary than she could ever have imagined.
Trapped inside a mundane school routine, a girl dreams of escape. Then one day, the sun runs away. She chases it across the sky and is thrown into a world of color and magic where she forges friendships and bonds that stretch beyond memory and time.
But where will it all end? Will she find her way back? And how will the world, her friends, and her imagination be transformed in the process?
Rainbow Walkers is a beautifully illustrated novel about daring, perseverance, self-discovery, and friendship. Join us on a journey through the visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum – and beyond.
A girl follows The Sun on a magical journey in search for answers and ends up traveling to places more extraordinary than she could ever have imagined.
Trapped inside a mundane school routine, a girl dreams of escape. Then one day, the sun runs away. She chases it across the sky and is thrown into a world of color and magic where she forges friendships and bonds that stretch beyond memory and time.
But where will it all end? Will she find her way back? And how will the world, her friends, and her imagination be transformed in the process?
Rainbow Walkers is a beautifully illustrated novel about daring, perseverance, self-discovery, and friendship. Join us on a journey through the visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum – and beyond.
Reviews
“This book is like walking through a dream. Occasionally, it is pure poetry.” LjM
“Inspiring, creative and beautifully illustrated. A story that magically transports our thoughts and feelings to the very core of our essence, challenging our imagination to see beyond conventionality. “Rainbow Walkers” truly emphasizes love, friendship and the wonders of existence, craftfully stimulating consciousness and awareness. A powerful guide for young minds, potentially enriching future generations.” BN
“I found words that explained exactly what I was feeling and thinking. What was inside me I found on the pages of this wonderful book.” KKR
“The illustrations and words go together perfectly. I couldn’t imagine one without the other.” AT
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BEHIND THE BOOK
Rainbow Walkers was created out of a need to set something in motion and share it with others. Like a dance of two lights, this joint passion project by Ada Gadomski and Filipa Carvalho da Silva, combines words and images to take the reader on an immersive journey through a world of color and imagination.
READING AGE
Rainbow Walkers can be read by children age 8 to 12 and adult children everywhere.
BOOK DETAILS
Joint Creators: Author Ada Gadomski; book design and illustrations by Filipa da Silva
-228 full color pages
-107 illustrations
-Book size: 8.625” x 6.687” x 0.625” (21.90 cm x 16.98 cm x 1.58 cm)
-Language: English
-Genre: Fantasy
-Publisher: Harmonics Press
-Printed in Spain by Estugraf Impresores S.L.
-Soft cover 250g card with superior thread-sewn binding
-Interior: 120g offset FSC Mix paper.
BOOK PRODUCTION
This high quality book is printed on FSC paper. Forest Stewardship Council ® certified paper is harvested in a manner that allows trees to naturally regenerate or be replaced, maintaining the whole forest ecosystem. Sacred sites and trees are protected and indigenous peoples’ rights respected. Local workers are paid a decent wage, and are provided with necessary safety equipment and training to carry out the job.
This book was responsibly made by artisans at a family-held print house near Madrid, Spain. A true artisan object you can feel good holding in your hands.
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We believe in Multicultural and Diverse projects and books. Our world is wonderful because of its colourful variety.
Two of the seven main characters in Rainbow Walkers are non-binary. Two are silent consciousnesses: a seed and a length of yarn. There is also a giant, a winged boy, and a talking wolf. We love them all very much.
Rainbow Walkers is adequate for middle grade students (readers between the ages of 8 and 12), though it was not written with that specific age group in mind. We set out to write a “universal” tale and concentrated on telling the story that wished to be told, while keeping the language as simple as we could.
Middle school is a transition time during which important learning takes place. Children develop individual identities while strengthening literacy and analytical skills. It is important to expose them to both “mirror” books (those that reflect the reader’s own culture and help to build a positive identity by affirming their identities and experiences) and “window” books (that offer the reader a view into someone else’s culture or experience, thus allowing them to build empathy for others).
Younger readers can experience Rainbow Walkers by being read to, and they can enjoy and comment on the many wonderful illustrations in the book.
Older readers can be red to as well. Everyone loves stories and shared experiences.
We hope Rainbow Walkers does both “mirror” and “window”-ing in a gentle way. We also believe everyone can benefit from affirmation, positive identity, empathy, and multiculturalism. It is often surprising to find we have so many doubts and issues in common, while feeling alone and isolated in our individual experience of being alive. Talking, listening, communicating, and acknowledging are important. They are “keys” of sort; they can unlock things deep inside of us. It is comforting to realise that even though we may not have perceived them, the keys are already in our hands and our hearts.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ada Gadomski was a classical musician before training in theatre and film design and working in the creative industries as a designer, assistant, director, coordinator, illustrator, puppet maker, visual consultant and educator. She began to suspect the search for expression she began with music performance and continued with visual art was not yet complete, when she designed, directed and set music to her graduation theatre play and wrote the text as well.
An exophonic writer, Ada wrote stories to accompany her drawings during childhood, first in Serbian, then in Italian, and finally in English. She lives with her family in Madrid, Spain.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Filipa Carvalho da Silva has been doodling since before she can remember. The moments in front of a sheet of paper with a pen, pencil or color materials in her hands were her way of going places.
As times passed and she grew up, drawing became a long lost friend, one she needed to reconnect with in order to create the illustrations for Rainbow Walkers. At first tentatively, unsure of herself, Filipa began to ground her energy to let go and allow the story to form in front of her. Ideas morphed into pictures and pictures blended with words, moving effortlessly together. For two years, she devoted her time to nurturing the characters and the worlds they explored until Rainbow Walkers came into being. The journey isn’t over yet…
