I really, really liked this book. I think there would be enough discussion material for a child but the pictures were beautiful and I loved the story. It is definitely something that all children can relate to.
The Boy in the Garden is really two stories. One is an old folktale about a man who saved a struggling crane from a trap, met and married a young woman who made a beautiful cloth each night and who begged her husband not to look upon her while she worked, and discovered his wife was the crane he sav...
What a lovely book. Say is a splendid storyteller, and this memoir with drawings, text and photos was spellbinding. He drew me in with a few swift strokes of his pen, and held me tight till the very end. I have enjoyed Say's other books, but this one is something special indeed. It's a treasure, eve...
As usual, Say's lovely paintings are stronger than his story, but I did find this story stronger than his norm. I liked the way he combined a myth (the Crane Wife) with a contemporary child's experience of hearing the story -- more original than the standard "retelling" or "modernization" of a fairy...
The best thing about this book is the last page. It's a lovely homage to Edward Hopper, and shows the famous diner, empty . I did enjoy the illustrations very much, but the text was muddy, and not particularly child-friendly, I think. I know it wouldn't have gone 3 pages before my own kid would hav...
A young man gets off a bus in a strange town and finds a job painting advertisements. But he considers himself a real artist and finds his work somewhat boring. However, he still goes ahead and paints the same ad over and over on a series of giant billboards in the desert. I'm not sure what the poin...
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