Oh, no! Why on earth did they not do this one as a wordless picture book? It does just the basic outline of Marceau's life, with no special emphasis on any one slice or chapter. I seem to prefer this latter approach as I see it done more now. But perhaps people are doing that with figures whose outl...
This year was the year for fantastic picture book biographies and Monsieur Marceau was one of my favorites. Leda Schubert tells, in simple words, and Gerard Dubois depicts, in quiet pictures, the story of a man with no words. It's all the details of the story---how Marceau loved to talk when he was ...
An excellent introduction to the world's most famous mime. Compare this title to the recently published Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime by Gloria Spielman (Kar-Ben, 2011).