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A Child of Books
Author:
Jeffers, Oliver
CoAuthor:
Winston, Sam
Illustrator:
Jeffers, Oliver
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Winston, Sam
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Class:
Easy
Age: 5-8
Language: English
Descriptors: Picture Book
Demand: Moderate
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LC: PZ7.J364
Grade: K-3
Print Run: 100000
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ISBN-13: 9780763690779
LCCN: 2016943940
Imprint: Candlewick Press
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Pub Date: 09/06/2016
Availability: Available
List: $19.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
H 10.56",
W 10.31",
D 0.47",
1.1188 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest Titles
Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Fresh Reads for Kids TIPS Selections
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers: Children's Picture Books
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Awards:
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Booklist Starred Reviews
Children's Choices Reading List
Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Kirkus Starred Reviews
Notable Children's Books in the English Language Arts
School Library Journal Starred Reviews
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Starred Reviews:
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Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
School Library Journal
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TIPS Subjects:
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Fantasy
Library Science
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Books & Libraries
JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play
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LC Subjects:
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Books and reading
Books and reading, Fiction
Books and reading, Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Friendship, Fiction
Friendship, Juvenile fiction
Imagination
Imagination, Fiction
Imagination, Juvenile fiction
JUVENILE FICTION / Books & Libraries
JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play
Juvenile works
Libraries, Fiction
Libraries, Juvenile fiction
Picture books
Picture books for children
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SEARS Subjects: |
Imagination, Fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Lexile Level:
400
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 09/01/2016 |
| Publisher Annotation: A little girl sails her raft across a sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy and calling him away on an adventure. Through forests of fairy tales and across mountains of make-believe, the two travel together on a fantastical journey that unlocks the boy’s imagination. Now a lifetime of magic and adventure lies ahead of him . . . but who will be next? 40pp., Color Ill. |
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| Booklist | 07/01/2016 |
| Grades 1-3. "I am a child of books," a little girl declares. "I come from a world of stories." And so begins this enchanting tale of a little girl sailing away on a sea made, literally, of words--as are many other things in her bookcentric world. Words are fashioned into the shapes of mountains, a monster, a dark cave, and more as the girl is joined by a boy on an adventure that dramatically demonstrates the freedom of imagination. Jeffers and Winston's first collaboration is a celebration of the child's world, illustrated in sumptuous double-page spreads featuring explosions of images borrowed from unforgettable sources: there's Little Red Riding Hood, there's the Cheshire Cat, there's Mr. Toad in his shiny motorcar, and there are the children themselves, standing upon a spinning globe. At first glance, this beautiful book looks simple, but that is deceptive. Every one of its elements--the haunting prose poem executed in hand-lettered words; the pictures done in watercolor, pencil, and digital collage; and the objects built from words borrowed from classic stories--all work together toward a richly harmonious whole. An irresistible invitation to read. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Jeffers is pushing himself artistically by pairing with fine-artist Winston, and his many fans ought to take notice. Cart, Michael. 40p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2016. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 07/15/2016 |
| A young girl reader helps a boy discover the imaginative art of stories in this insightful, intertextual ode to literary curiosity."I am a child of books. / I come from a world of stories." So says the nameless girl narrator as she sits and reads on a raft that floats atop a sea made up of words from various classic books. She sails a wave and approaches an awestruck boy to whisk him away. Following a trail of words pulled from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--an apt inclusion--the girl leads him into a world of adventures. Jeffers and Winston's mixed-media artwork, an inventive combination of watercolor, pencil, and digital collage, elicits strong notice from readers. Jeffers' uneven, hand-lettered text contrasts dramatically with Winston's digitally manipulated lines of classic prose. Collaged-in photos of actual books share space beside drawn buildings and act as tree trunks in a forest; sentences and lines taken from a diverse set of stories populate each spread, bowing to gravity or bursting from the world in unexpected ways. "For this is our world / we've made from stories..." sums it all up. Readers may find themselves smiling along. The girl wears her dark hair in pigtails and is depicted as either blue or paper-white, and the boy is also paper-white, with wavy, short hair. An ingenious, confident, and pretty cool exploration of literary delight. (Picture book. 5-12). 40pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2016. |
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| School Library Journal | 07/01/2016 |
| Gr 1 Up. A gorgeous, innovative musing on the power of storytelling. A nameless young girl who calls herself a child of books narrates in lyrical, spellbinding verse. Some, she says, have forgotten the importance of stories, but she finds a boy and introduces him to her world, a land created through a marriage of Jeffers's evocative art and Winston's masterly use of typography. In one scene, the children climb "mountains of make-believe" whose peaks and valleys are constructed from text from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan; in another, the pair play hide-and-seek in a forest of trees whose branches are made up of text from various fairy tales. As the two travel farther into the land of imagination, the art slowly takes on a vibrant, joyful tone. Spots of color are added here and there until, finally, loose, sketchy black-and-white line drawings of the children against spare backgrounds are replaced with rich, full-color spreads. Even the choice of which books to excerpt is inspired, and those who take a closer look at the pictures will be rewarded (words and sentences from tales of terror such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow comprise a furry, horned monster who menaces a castle; the children escape by climbing down the castle on a rope made up of prose from "Rapunzel"). A full listing of the excerpted works is included on the endpapers; the majority of works are British classics from the Western canon. VERDICT Use this wholly original celebration of the story as a jumping-off point for conversations about art and writing. A masterpiece. Mahnaz Dar, School Library Journal. 40p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2016. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| BookPage | 09/01/2016 |
| All ages. The child of books sits on a raft, legs dangling in the water--an ocean composed of lines from classical literature and lullabies. Buoyed on this torrent of tales, the dauntless child leads a boy, her traveling companion, around the globe, through forests and mountains. A metaphor for reading, an entertaining adventure, an intriguing work of art--whatever your interpretation, A Child of Books was written for the child of books in all of us. Boldly drawn, cleverly detailed and colorful, this is an engaging collaboration between two talented artists. Bestselling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers is well known for his quirky and delightful picture books, and museum-featured artist Sam Winston makes a memorable literary debut with his typographical landscapes. A Child of Books is an "I spy" journey for book lovers, and readers could get lost in the captivating interchange of carefully chosen literary excerpts and original art. Winston and Jeffers insert humor in the details, choosing passages to echo each illustration. Forest-themed tales shape tree branches. Overlapping lines of adventures create a dark, forbidding cave. Lines about legendary monsters come to life as a threatening beast. This delightful treasure hunt through children's literature will have you digging through your bookshelves, hunting for forgotten phrases and making room among the tomes for this book. Jill Lorenzini. 40p. BOOKPAGE, c2016. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2017 |
| 3. In this love letter to literature, a girl and boy journey over "mountains of make-believe," through "forests of fairy tales," and so on, exploring a "world of stories." Multimedia illustrations place Jeffers's expressive, energetic depictions of the children amid Winston's stunning "typographical landscapes" composed of excerpts from classics such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, "Hush-a-Bye Baby," Kidnapped, and others. mdl. 40pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2017. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 07/04/2016 |
| All ages. Jeffers (The Day the Crayons Quit) writes the text for this hymn to the power of imagination, and he and typographic artist Winston collaborate on the spreads, in which Jeffers's witty pen-and-ink drawings meet Winston's manipulated blocks of type, composed of passages from children's classics. "I am a child of books," a straight-haired girl says; she's sitting on a raft, dangling her feet in a river of Winston's tiny letters. "I come from a world of stories/ and upon my imagination/ I float." A page turn reveals the raft sailing across an ocean of Winston's word waves. Boldface titles buried within the words reveal their sources--The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, TreasureIsland, and others. Together with a boy in striped shorts, the girl journeys to a cave, forest, and outer space, each scene enhanced with Winston's altered text, as when the passages from Frankenstein create the dense fur of a monster marauding a castle. Though more an artist's creation than a children's story, the energy of the images bursts from the pages, "for imagination is free," Jeffers concludes. Agent: Paul Moreton, Bell Lomax Moreton Agency. (Sept.). 40p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2016. |
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| Review Citations |
| New York Times Book Review | 08/28/2016 |
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