We Go to the Park is a beautiful lyrical meditation on going to the park to play—which extends
into a reflection on life itself—from Booker Prize -longlisted author Sara Stridsberg and the
inimitable award-winning illustrator Beatrice Alemagna! Translated from Swedish by B.J.
Woodstein A Kirkus Best YA Book of 2024 One of Maria Popova’s Marginalian Favorites of
2024 Selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List 2025 The park beckons us to
leave our daily routines behind and enter its zone of endless possibility. In the park the
usual rules don’t apply. In the park what matters most is the moment and losing track of time
to the timelessness of imagination invention observation and chance. In the park there are
risks of course but also the deepest rewards to be found in the freedom experienced through
play that is both embodied and participatory. It is not the lone “I ” but the “we” that goes to
the park where chance encounters might suddenly become moments of deep connection—however
fleeting—with others nature and ourselves. Originally published in Sweden this first
English–language edition printed in Italy on thick cream paper offers an immersive experience
of transformation longing and transcendence to readers of all ages while reminding adult
readers in particular of the everyday miracle contained in encountering another consciousness.
