It’s all in the little sentence by Stefan Zweig inscribed at the beginning of the book:
“The pause is also part of the music”.

At a time when everyone speaks of the value “work”, I wanted to draw attention to those little moments when you do nothing special, which are fundamental to a healthy balance. It’s good to work, but also to know when to stop!

What the horse does is the height of absurdity, and it isn’t I who invented it.

For the picture of the rhinoceros, I drew inspiration from a well-known photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Annie Leibovitz.

On the cat’s page: “Sacha has been looking for a job since his boss got rid of him for economic reasons”. How can a child understand that?
Well, I must admit that I still don’t understand it and yet it happens all the time. It’s never too soon to denounce the absurdity of our society.

Yes, yes, the gorilla page is a tribute to Anthony Browne.

What do animals do after work? The book can be taken further with children: there are many more situations to imagine.