Artists' Helpers Enjoy the Evenings

Goffstein, M.B.

ISBN 10: 0060221828 / ISBN 13: 9780060221829

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1987

About this Item

1st/1st. DJ price clipped, store label in back. Goffstein's charming little fantasy story about artists' crayons secret life.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Artists' Helpers Enjoy the Evenings
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060221828
• ISBN 13: 9780060221829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Goffstein, M.B.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

As dusk falls over the streets of Paris, the artists' helpers, the crayons Blanc, Noir, Gris, Bistre, and Sanguine, stop work and set out to enjoy their evening

From School Library Journal

Grade 2 Up Drawings executed in colored crayon illustrate this story of close friends Blanc, Noir, Gris, Bistre, and Sanguine who are crayonsartists' helpersby day and frequent a cafe during the evening. The book is divided into four very short chapters. It is difficult to determine the targeted audience for the book; students of art or French are possibilities, but it is impossible to believe that readers would choose to look at this a second time. The crayons do not come alive as characters, their adventures as described are boring and matter-of-fact, and even the masquerade ball at the close of the story in which the crayons come dressed as each other fails to engage viewers. Goffstein's usual poetic prose is not in evidence here. This is only for her most dedicated fans. Ellen Fader, Westport Public Library, Conn.
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