Doodler Doodling - Hardcover

Gelman, Rita Golden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688166458 ISBN 13: 9780688166458

Publisher: Greenwillow Books, 2004

Synopsis

Here is a doodler doodling.

And here are her doodles.

Here is a book starring twenty-one words, a blank piece of paper, and a train of thought.

And you will be amazed.

WOW!

About this title

About the Author:

Rita Golden Gelman is the author of more than forty books for children and co-author of the "Which Way" series with Nancy Austin, under the joint pseudonym of R. G. Austin. In 1985, she decided to sell or give away all of the possessions that didn’t fit in her suitcases and focus on her love of travel and interest in other cultures. Since then, she has rarely stayed in one place for more than six months, visiting Bali, the Galapagos Islands, Israel, and Borneo, among other places. Her recent book, Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, is a facinating account of her nomadic and adventurous life.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 6–There's lots to look at and lots to ponder in this playful and powerful paean to the creative process, to the astonishing malleability of visual and verbal imagery, and to the evolution of ideas. Picture this: "Painters painting./Climbers climbing./Climbers painting./Painters climbing./Painters painting climbing climbers." Gelman's 21 words and Zelinsky's computer-manipulated art morph merrily here, demonstrating the power of perspective and the truth that even a tiny twist on the expected can effect a transmogrification (after all, people climb, but so do animals and kites and roses). Zelinsky uses bright, loose watercolor to paint the earnest girl whose doodles are not confined by letters or lines or the bounds of the notebook paper on which she draws with her nifty, fat-barreled, multicolor-cartridge ballpoint pen. As her innovatively visual definitions of deceptively simple sentences expand and gather momentum, viewers are treated to an ever-wider view of her work, until only a gatefold can accommodate the product of her invention run amok. ("Painters hugging bakers climbing throwers painting huggers mowing fliers throwing climbers flying mowers baking teachers teaching.") While her sophisticated and comic cartoon art is assuredly not "Doodling 101," children and adults alike will be inspired to allow their own scribblings to soar off the page as hers do, the better to reflect the variety and exponentially amazing possibilities of interpreting the written word. Challenge the limitations of the literal (whatever that may be). Challenge the limitations of the figurative. Play with possibilities. Just doodle it!–Kathy Krasniewicz, Perrot Library, Old Greenwich, CT
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About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0688166458
• ISBN 13: 9780688166458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Zelinsky Paul O.