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[ 책 소개 ]
* Newbery Honor 수상작
* An ALA Notable Book
* Book Links Good Books Of The Year
이 책은 미국에서 해마다 가장 뛰어난 아동도서 작가에게 주는 '뉴베리 영예상'을 받았습니다. 국내에서는 "앤드루와 하모니카"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간된 명작입니다.
요론다의 동생인 앤드루는 말도 잘 못하고 글도 쓸 줄 모르지만, 돌아가신 아버지가 남겨준 하모니카를 이용해서 기가 막힌 음악을 연주하곤 합니다. 요론다는 동생에게 천재적인 음악성이 있다는 것을 알고는 이를 모든 사람들로부터 인정 받기 위해 노력합니다...
열두 살 소녀 욜론다가 가장 아끼고 사랑하는 남동생 앤드루는 모든 것이 또래에 비해 늦고 아직 글도 읽지 못하지만, 아빠가 물려준 하모니카로 어떤 소리라도 낼 수 있습니다. 그런데 불량한 중학생 패거리들이 앤드루의 소중한 하모니카를 망가뜨린 후 앤드루는 전과는 달리 하모니카를 너무 조심스럽게 다루고, 늘 가지고 다니지도 않았습니다. 욜론다는 앤드루가 천재성을 잃은 것 같아 걱정이 되었고, 자기가 앤드루를 제대로 돌보지 못한 것을 후회했습니다. 욜론다는 앤드루의 재능이 다른 사람들로부터 인정받을 수 있도록 백방으로 노력했으며, 결국 앤드루는 시카고 블루스 축제에서 하모니카를 연주할 기회를 얻게 됩니다. 그리고 앤드루의 멋진 연주를 들은 사람들은 소리 높여 박수를 쳤습니다.
덩치도 크고 공부도 잘하는 자신과 달리 어른들에게 걱정을 끼치는 앤드루를 돌보는 누나 욜론다의 따뜻한 마음이 잘 표현된 이야기입니다. 음악 천재가 보고 듣는 또 다른 세계의 모습도 그려집니다. 남매의 좌충우돌 학교생활을 통해 관계 맺기의 어려움과 소중함을 함께 느낄 수 있습니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0689813279
ISBN-13: 9780689813276
책 크기: 19.3cm x 13cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
Yolanda is a great big girl and strong for her age, bigger and stronger and smarter than anyone else in the fifth grade. She is cool and streetwise, too, and afraid of no one. It's easy for her to watch out for her little, first-grade brother, Andrew. But their mother, a legal professional and a widow, is concerned about crime and drugs in her children's Chicago school. She moves them all to a smaller and, she hopes, smaller town.
Yolanda, at first, is scornful of her new town. And Andrew, who never talks much, is having trouble learning to read. What he loves to do is play on the old harmonica given to him as a baby by his father to teethe on and which he's kept blowing ever since. He can imitate any sound he hears, like bacon sizzling, or express any mood he feels, like the freshness of an early morning. Yolanda understands that that's the way he "talks." She is convinced Andrew is a true genius with a great musical gift. But no one else believes it--not her mother, nor Andrew's teachers, not even wonderful Aunt Tiny in Chicago. Yolanda sets out to open up adult eyes, a task whose strategies will call on far more than her physical toughness. Her plans crystallize on a visit back to Chicago to enjoy the great annual blues festival with Aunt Tiny.
Carol Fenner, whose previous book Randall's Wall has reached a wide audience throughout the country, has created a daring heroine in Yolanda and a warm portrayal of an African-American family in a story that moves with mounting intensity to a dramatic, believable, and a wholly satisfying conclusion.
Ingram
Yolonda is smart, tough, and big for her age. No one messes with her. Yolonda's little brother Andrew doesn't talk much and he can't read, but he creates unbelievable music. When Yolonda reads the definition of "genius" in the dictionary, she knows it describes Andrew, and she sets out to convince their mother and the world of Andrew's gift. A Newbery Honor Book and ALA Notable Children's Book.
Booklist
A beautifully drawn portrait of an African American family that escapes the mean streets of Chicago by moving to a small Michigan town. Nearing the end of first grade, Yolonda's younger brother, Andrew, is still unable to read, and Yolonda's widowed mother worries about him and scoffs at Yolonda's dogged insistence that he is a musical genius. Now Yolonda must use all her physical and mental powers to devise a plan to prove to her mother and the world that Andrew is a child prodigy. Dynamic characters and fresh dialogue combine with a compelling story line to draw readers into Yolonda's world. Preteen girls especially will identify with Yolonda's yearning to be noticed by handsome Stoney Buxton and with the awkwardness she experiences at being the new kid in town. Fenner's expertise is most evident in the implausible ending that she somehow makes totally believable.
Publishers Weekly
This novel about a girl determined to see her brother's real genius acknowledged won a 1995 Newbery Honor; PW observed that it "merits acclaim for its fresh premise and forceful characterizations." |
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