Peeking Through the Crack - Order of the Grail on Earth

There are small encounters and missed connections that we experience throughout life and through imagination, and which we leave forgotten in a corner of memory. Peeking Through the Crack speaks of small things like the wings of a ladybug, a roof through which dreams leak, and a curious neighbor. But who said these things don't hold surprises?

From each encounter, we gather a dose of comfort or inspiration, and from the missed connections, a powerful seed can be born, capable of becoming a grown tree within each of us.

Peeking Through the Crack uses everyday life as its stage. The 22 cracks in the book offer a curious look at issues that fascinate or disturb, always issues that touch on a sensitive point in life.

"Winged Dream," the opening text, leads to a subtle questioning of the prisons we invent and the freedoms we conquer. The girl receives a bird that accompanies her growth through the cracks in a cage. A parallel is drawn between the animal's imprisonment, the girl's freedom, and the questioning of the adult world, which seeks to preserve a space without constraints.

The chronicle that gives the book its title narrates the encounters of a child with the resident of the neighboring apartment. How long would that boy spy on his neighbor arriving home at the end of the day? And how much would this please or annoy the neighbor, accustomed to the anonymity of the big city?

Sibélia Zanon's prose seeks the poetic and frequently delves into childhood: a space conducive to the discoveries of existence and also a simple and unpretentious territory, capable of revealing the complex truths of adult life.

The book includes unpublished texts, as well as others already published in the periodical "Literatura do Graal". The texts are accompanied by illustrations by Fátima Seehagen, illustrations that embrace playfulness and offer the reader an expanding space to imagine, contemplate, and savor their own thoughts.

Specifications:
- Publisher: Order of the Grail on Earth
- Language: Portuguese
- ISBN: 978-85-7279-114-4
- EAN: 9788572791144
- 112 p. — 2010
- 1st ed. — Paperback
- Dimensions: 14.0 x 20.8 cm.

About the Authors:
Sibélia Zanon
Text:
Sibélia Zanon was born in 1978 in the city of São Paulo. She is a journalist and holds a postgraduate degree in literary journalism from the Brazilian Association of Literary Journalism (ABJL). She has worked in education and in a news agency. Currently, she is a freelancer and writes mainly about the environment and environmental education. She enjoys playing with words and exploring fiction.

Fátima Seehagen
Illustrations:
Fátima Seehagen graduated in Design (1973) from the Polytechnic Institute of Londrina, with specializations in Airbrushing and Set Design. She has worked in the areas of Architectural Design, Model Making, Advertising, Illustration, and since 1992 has worked as a facilitator in art education, focusing on Applied Creativity. Currently, she coordinates distance learning courses in the area of ​​Visual Arts.

The growing concern with Environmental Education, focusing on the contradictions and human conflicts that are reflected in the degradation of the environment, has underpinned her work, including the short film ANIMARECO, presented by TV CULTURA.