Typical: it’s Sunday, you want to listen to Leonard Cohen but your son bursts into tears immediately: he says it fills him with nostalgia.
Or he insists on watching “Clifford, the big red dog” again and you are bored out of your mind.
Don’t suffer!
At Plom we believe that leisure should be the least of your problems.
That’s why we’ve hired a team of detectives to find out what things you can share and enjoy together.
Adults as children, and children as children.
We’ve been assured that these five are foolproof: 1. Laura Veirs: “Tumble Bee“: Laura Veirs had been told more than once that her voice had the power to calm children.
So, after becoming a mother, and with a reputed career as a singer-songwriter behind her, she got down to work and in 2011 released “Tumble Bee”, an album for children.
In it she covers American folk songs, most of them for children.
The album is not far from her usual style, but it is more relaxing and naive.
Ideal for putting young children to sleep and soothing them.
And with a beautiful cover!
2. “Walter Martin: We’re All young Together.” When the former member of the band The Walkmen ventured out to play and compose solo, he decided that what he most wanted to do was to make an album for children.
And the result was “We’re all young together” (2014), a wonderful album, tender, vibrant and full of life.
It is not a typical children’s music album, but rather a good album that talks about tigers, families dancing together, or rattlesnakes.
And in which, from time to time, the occasional cow moo sneaks in.
It also features interesting collaborators (Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, or Alec Ounsworth).
And with a song about the Beatles! 
3. Lynda Barry: The Greatest of Marlys: Marlys is a bespectacled, chubby, chatty girl who belongs to what they call a dysfunctional family . But thanks to her character and her overflowing imagination, Marlys manages to have a pretty good time, in spite of everything.
This volume collects all the comics that Lynda Barry created about Marlys; stories to laugh and wonder at the same time, and to remember and understand what it was like to be a child.
A book for somewhat grown-up children and also, no doubt, for their parents.
( Ed. Sasquatch Books. Available in English only) 
4. Angela Wilkes: “My First Book of…” Angela Wilkes is the author of more than a dozen children’s activity books.
It has three lines: “My first book of…”, “The great book of…” and “The fantastic book for…”, and among its themes: science, nature, cooking, costumes, and an endless number of crafts.
They show step by step how to carry out the different activities.
They are books that will make you want to rediscover the world with the eyes of a child, get your hands dirty with all kinds of crafts and celebrate everything that can be celebrated.
The team especially recommends “El fantástico libro para los días de lluvia”, “Mi primer libro de cocina” and “El fantástico libro de los disfraces”.
(Ed. Molino) 
5. Felicity Dahl and Josie Fison : “Les fangstigoses Receptes de Roald Dahl”: This is one of the most amazing recipe books ever published.
It collects and invents recipes for dishes that appear in the author’s works, from the chocolate cake that Bruce Bogtrotter must eat as punishment in “Matilda” (the one that looked so good), to pencils with caramelized tips, or Mr. Twit’s face made with french fries.
Twit’s face made with potato chips.
Accompanied, as always, by the magnificent illustrations of Quentin Blake.
The team has put many colorful asterisks around this book, and rightly so: it’s a marvel.
(Currently in Spain it can only be found in Catalan, or in English: “Roald Dahl’s revolting recipes” and a second volume: “Even More Revolting Recipes”). 
What do you think about these proposals?
If in addition to all these you want to come and see us, in Plom Gallery you can also have a good time putting invented titles to the drawings and paintings of our artists!
