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Stevenson's classic poem depicts children all over the world running, jumping, and playing with their own shadows
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Illustrator Monique Felix's work has appeared in more than 40 books, including the highly popular "Mouse Book" series. She has won the Bratislava Prize, the Octogone Prize, and various honors from the Bologna Book Fair.
From School Library Journal:
PreSchool-Grade 2 --Stevenson's poem plays with the concept of "shadow" as a physical phenomenon, and even hints at a psychological dimension to the shadow self, who is called a "coward," evokes disgrace ("I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!"), and "can only make a fool of" the speaker. Lang's flat acrylic paintings eliminate natural shadows and reduce volumes to shapes--as shadows do. The problem with the illustrations is conceptual. Although the flap copy asserts that the heroine travels through "a dream nightscape," there are no internal cues to differentiate the dream setting from the real one. In her pajamas, the heroine might be having a late stroll, or an early one. A sliver of moon confusingly does all the work of shadow-making, until the last line, when the heroine emerges "very early, before the sun was up" into a world as bright as midday but mysteriously shadowless (while the noontime shrinkage of shadows cited in the text has occurred at midnight). The book not only does disservice to Stevenson's verse but also badly muddles the principles of shadow casting. --Patricia Dooley, University of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDemco Media
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0606096523
- ISBN 13 9780606096522
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorRand Ted
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