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* Publishers Weekly, Top Books of the Year
* Cuffie Award 수상도서
일본의 대표적인 아동문학가 Yukio Tsuchiya가 글을 쓰고, "Peppe the Lamplighter"로 Caldecott상을 수상한 Ted Lewin이 그림을 그렸습니다. 2차 세계대전 당시 일본 우에노 동물원에서 숨진 3마리의 코끼를 통해 전쟁의 비극, 그리고 동물에 대한 사랑 등을 깨닫게 하는, 슬프고도 아름다운 그림책입니다.
전쟁이 막바지에 다다르고 미군의 공습이 임박하자 일본 정부는 공습으로 우리가 손상될 경우 동물들이 탈출해서 민간인에게 피해를 주는 것을 막기 위해 모든 맹수들을 죽이기로 결정했습니다. 그 당시 동물원에는 코끼리 3마리가 있었는데 영리한 코끼리들은 독이 든 감자를 먹지 않고 뱉어내는 바람에 쉽게 죽일 수 없었죠. 독약이 든 주사기는 단단한 피부를 뚫지 못해 부러지기 일수였죠.
할 수 없이 동물원에서는 코끼리들에게 음식과 물 공급을 중단해서 이들을 굶겨 죽이기로 결정했습니다. 그 중 한 마리는 17일만에 죽었고, 나머지 두마리도 굶주림으로 인해 하루가 다르게 수척해 갔지요. 두마리는 더 이상 일어설 겨를도 없었지만 자기를 사랑하고 보살펴주던 사육사가 다가오자, 마지막 힘을 내어 사육사가 훈련시켰던 두발로 일어서서 코를 하늘 높이 쳐드는 묘기를 보여줬습니다. 예전에는 이런 묘기를 잘하면 사육사가 맛있는 먹이를 주곤 했었죠. 이런 코끼리들의 모습을 본 사육사는 가슴이 찢어지도록 슬펐고...
세 마리 코끼리가 겪은 고난과 죽음을 통해 많은 것을 깨닫고 생각하게 하는 책입니다.
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Edition: Paperback: 30 Pages
ISBN-10: 0395861373
ISBN-13: 9780395861370
책 크기: 25.3cm x 19.8cm
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Book Description
A zookeeper recounts the story of John, Tonky, and Wanly, three performing elephants at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, whose turn it is to die, and of their keepers, who weep and pray that World War II will end so their beloved elephants might be saved.
Publishers Weekly
A zookeeper narrates the story of how there came to be graves at the zoo: when Tokyo was showered with bombs during the bleak days of World War II, the authorities feared that if the zoo were destroyed, the animals might accidentally be freed and wreak havoc on the city. So they decided that all the zoo animals would be killed. But the elephants wouldn't eat the poisonous food they were offered, and the needles in the syringes containing poison broke before they could penetrate the elephants' rough skin. So the elephants were starved to death, a slow and painful process watched by the zookeepers who loved them. An upsetting story for children or adults, this powerfully conveys the deadly side effects of war. Lewin's watercolors show the massive gray bodies in their state of decline; it is impossible not to appreciate the heartbreak of the animals' plight. But this is a book that provokes questions about the nature of death and dying (children may read into this that some may be killed for the greater good of all), and so should be chosen with care.
School Library Journal
In an unnamed war, Tokyo was being bombed ``day and night.'' The Army commands that the dangerous animals in the Tokyo Zoo be poisoned so that they might not escape in the event of a direct hit (witness a double-page spread of a dead tiger, a bear, a lion, and a large snake). When it is the elephant's turn to die, he refuses to eat food which has been poisoned and his skin is too thick to take an injection of poison, so the decision is made to starve him to death. Two more elephants must follow, and the real tension produced in the story is the pathos surrounding the torturously slow death of these big pets by depriving them of all food and water. No punches are pulled: these dying elephants use some of their last strength to perform a trick for which they have been customarily rewarded with food and water. They die, horribly, and are mourned by the zookeepers who ``raised their fists to the sky and implored `Stop the war! Stop the war! Stop all wars!' '' Lewin's lustrous watercolors soften the hard edges of the story: his backgrounds appear as if washed with tears. This is an odd choice for a children's book. Indeed, the High Moral Purpose here must be interpreted as having more to do with the heartlessness of the zoo keepers than the cruelty of war. Yet, to follow logically, it would seem spurious for a writer to suggest that children ``realize the human ideal'' so that elephants will never go hungry again. And it is also somehow churlish to implicate children in the stupidities of adults. No amount of rhetorical conceit will make Faithful Elephants any more than a book which demonstrates an immoral cruelty to animals.
Ingram
A zoo keeper recounts the story of John, Tonky, and Wanly, three performing elephants that were starved to death at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo during World War II, and of their keepers, who weep and pray that the war will end so their beloved elephants might be saved. "A moving and powerful statement about the insanity of war."--Horn Book. Full color. |
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