Ikarus Jackson, the new boy in school, is outcast because he has wings, but his resilient spirit inspires one girl to speak up for him.
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Ikarus Jackson, a new boy on the block, surprises his neighbors one day by flying above the rooftops with his "long, strong, proud wings." People start to whisper, though, and soon those whispers turn to taunts, disdain, and finally even dismissal from school. One quiet girl, someone who knows loneliness herself, doesn't think the winged boy is strange. She runs through the streets, searching the clouds for her exiled schoolmate, only to find a policeman yelling at him to get down from the edge of a building where he perched with the pigeons: "Could the policeman / put him in jail for flying, / for being too different?" She musters her strength to tell the laughing onlookers to leave him alone, and she tells her new friend "what someone should have long ago"--that his flying is beautiful.
Christopher Myers, who illustrated the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Black Cat and the Caldecott Honor Book Harlem shines in this simple, lovely tribute to individualism, encouraging his young readers to dare to fly too close to the sun despite the warnings of the mythological Icarus. "Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him," says Myers. His masterful cut-paper collages capture the odd, crazy beauty of Ikarus's big white wings and the dizzying perspectives of a boy who is flying over rooftops. Urban landscapes are represented by cut photos of fencing, brownstones, and photo-booth portraits, while the sky in one spread is a sea of fuschia roses. Wings is a wonderfully expressive pairing of story and illustration. (Ages 6 and older) --Karin Snelson
Christopher Myers may have inherited some of his talent from his father, Walter Dean Myers, or his grandfather, who "was a storyteller," says Myers. "His thick callused hands told stories. My father tells stories. I tell stories." "Illustrating children's books is a trip. So many people are starving for images. (There is an) image famine in African America. I think we are learning how important images are, how much they do." Myers's book, Harlem, which he collaborated on with his father, was named a Caldecott Honor Book. In reviewing it, Booklist observed that "the artist sees a concrete city composed of ‘colors loud enough to be heard.'" This talented artist, who works in collages, photos, and woodcuts, graduated from Brown University and completed the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. For more information about Christopher Myers, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks
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