Book Review
Chi is a michievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Seperated from the warmth and protection of her mother, feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow., when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada family apartment…where pets are strictly not permitted.
Ms. Diana’s Review
Here is a collection with three beautiful and lovely tales written by Shaun Tan, one of my favorite illustrators, he is such a big artist and will dare to call his pictures “ART”. It is amazing how the illustrations take you to fantastic worlds, and he has a unique imaginative window to our souls and the ability to share his view through the drawings on the stories.
My favorite tale was The red tree, because it is a clearly proof that there is “HOPE”, even when we are feeling so sad, and everything around us seems so negative, in the end we will find a bright light.
Visit his website: http://www.shauntan.net/paintings1.html
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Book Review
In bold, unornamented line drawings of a rabbit and a box, the author-illustrator offers a paean to the time-honored imaginative play of young children who can turn a cardboard box into whatever their creativity can conjure. Through a series of paired questions and answers, the rabbit is queried about why he is sitting in, standing on, spraying, or wearing a box. Each time, he insists, “It’s not a box!” and the opposite page reveals the many things a small child’s pretending can make of one: a race car, a mountain, a burning building, a robot. One important caveat: the younger end of the intended audience is both literal and concrete in their approach to this material. The box itself, drawn as a one-dimensional rectangle, will be perceived by preschoolers to be flat and not readily understood as three-dimensional. Furthermore, those children are likely to interpret the “box’s” transformation to be “magic,” while five- and six-year-olds are able to make the cognitive conversion from flat rectangle to three-dimensional box and to understand that the transformation has been made by the rabbit’s own imagination. Both audiences will enjoy the participatory aspect of identifying each of the rabbit’s new inventions. Knowledgeable adults will bring along a large box to aid in understanding and to encourage even more ideas and play!
Ms. Diana’s Review
When you understand the concept of this book you will want to read it again and again and again. This is another example of the children’s extraordinary imagination and how using only one plain box, they can create beautiful things and games and more. The book is on the preschool section if you want it, but right now someone is reading it so you will have to wait. =)
San Agustin Library 