Do You Remember?
Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out.
Now it’s just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined.
In a series of warm and wistful vignettes, as achingly fleeting as childhood memories always become, Sydney Smith takes us into the mind of a young person processing a bevy of complex emotions during a major life change. Do You Remember? is a stirring meditation on holding fast to the best of the past, and choosing to believe in the future.

Language of Document: English

Title: Do You Remember ?‬   

Author andIllustrator: Sydney Smith

Name of award: Hans Christian Andersen Award - Illustrator Winner, 2024

Publication Statement: New York: Neal Porter Books, 2023.

Subject: Memory/ Mothers and sons