Lucy's Picture - Softcover

Nicola Moon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852139552 ISBN 13: 9781852139551

Publisher: Orchard Books, 1995

Synopsis

Lucy wants to make her grandpa a special picture, but her grandfather is blind, so she decides to make him a picture with twigs, feathers, velvet and sand, so that he can feel it with his fingers. This heart-warming story is perfect for sharing with young children.

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About the Author

Nicola Moon was born in Bristol, but grew up in Yorkshire. She has worked as a laboratory research assistant and a secondary school science teacher. Nicola's first picture book was published in 1994 and to date she has had over a dozen titles published including, for Orchard, Lucy's Picture. Nicola lives in Wiltshire. Alex Ayliffe is a well-known children's book illustrator. Her titles for Orchard include the bestselling Dig Dig Digging, Emergency! and Choo Choo Clickety-Clack! Her board book Boo Barney won the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award. Alex Lives in Hertfordshire with her family.

From Publishers Weekly

Vision is only one means of experiencing one's surroundings, imply the author and artist of this affecting story. When Lucy's class gets ready "to do some painting," Lucy asks to work instead on a collage for her grandfather. Soft reds and blues predominate in Ayliffe's torn-paper collage art, which shows the girl rummaging amid cloth scraps for the perfect items ("She liked plunging her hands deep in the box and feeling with her eyes shut"), then sacrificing her outside playtime to collect "twigs, leaves, and two small feathers." In a final burst of creativity (though not a recommended artistic maneuver), Lucy snips a lock of her hair to simulate a golden retriever's coat. The pictured pooch is her blind grandfather's seeing-eye dog; examining her tactile portrait (reproduced on one of the final pages) a proud Grandpa observes, "It's the best picture I've ever seen." Both Ayliffe's expressive compositions and Moon's straightforward prose-which admirably presents a physical disability here without attendant emotion-convey Lucy's distinctive intensity; her example might well inspire youngsters to fashion similar projects. Ages 3-7.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1852139552
• ISBN 13: 9781852139551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32