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A little girl named Autrie gathers the precious moments of her childhood around her, realizing that the special things she has come to enjoy--her Mama's beautiful face, the night breezes, her own youth--are fleeting.
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From School Library Journal:
Kindergarten-Grade 4-A wonderful book, full of gentle insight and deep perception, essentially about change. Autrie, alone on the porch while her mother sits inside, thinks about her world. She first wants her mother to remain forever the way she is now-beautiful, young, and protective. Yet this feeling lasts for only a moment because the girl realizes that nothing ever stays the same. Next, she wants to somehow keep the stars and this particular night with her forever, but again understands that it cannot be. As she looks up into the sky, she longs to keep forever the feelings of comfort and safety she gets from her home and from her mother. Again, she sees that this also cannot be. Gilchrist has created a book of great visual beauty, using deep brown colors for her African-American characters and rich hues of blues, blacks, and whites for the night landscape. The text is beautifully written, conveying a number of messages about the nature of childhood. Autrie is both saddened and gladdened by the truths revealed to her, but she accepts them all. A wise and marvelously done offering that deserves a place in every library.
Carol Jones Collins, Montclair Kimberley Academy, NJ
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Publishers Weekly:
Carol Jones Collins, Montclair Kimberley Academy, NJ
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This brief, lyrical book--the first that Gilchrist (illustrator of Nathaniel Talking and Night on Neighborhood Street ) has both written and illustrated--describes an epiphany experienced by Autrie, an African American girl. Stepping out onto the porch one evening as her mother watches from the window, the child "wants to freeze the night. Make time stop. Make Mama beautiful forever, sitting on the sofa, watching over her." But as she observes the stars and feels the warm breezes, Autrie acknowledges that "the breeze would one day blow cold and winters would come." After she becomes aware that her mother is no longer at the window, the girl's form gradually changes into that of a woman; Autrie accepts the fact that Mamas don't stand guard forever, and that "little girls sometimes become Mamas, who sit and watch their children dream on nights of indigo and moonlight gold." The broad strokes and warm colors of Gilchrist's oil paintings nicely complement the ethereal, dreamlike quality of her affecting narrative. Unfortunately, although the concepts here are sophisticated, the picture-book format seems unlikely to appeal to the intended audience. Ages 8-12.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherWriters & Readers
- ISBN 10 0863162932
- ISBN 13 9780863162930
- BindingPaperback
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