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[ 책 소개 ]
* An ALA Notable Book
기발한 상상력과 독창적인 작품 소재, 펜을 이용한 세밀하고 섬세한 그림, 그리고 정면만이 아닌 다양한 각도에서 바라보는 구도 등으로 현대의 가장 뛰어난 Picture Book 작가중 한 명으로 인정 받는 Chris Van Allsburg의 작품입니다. Polar Express를 비롯해서 3차례 Caldecott 상을 수상한 Chris Van Allsburg의 작품들은 어린이 뿐만 아니라 어른들에게도 재미와 감탄을 안겨줍니다.
이 책 역시 독자들이 지닐 수 있는 상상의 한계를 뛰어넘는 기막힌 구도와 반전을 포함하고 있습니다.
미국 서부의 리버밴드라는 작은 마을에 마차 한 대가 들어 오면서 마을 주민들은 공포에 빠지게 됩니다. 마차를 몰던 말의 몸에 태어나서 처음 보는 이상한 줄들이 그려져 있었기 때문입니다. 마차가 마을에 들어 온 이후 이와 유사한 일들이 계속해서 발생했습니다. 선인장에도, 소떼에도, 집의 창문에도, 심지어 사람의 얼굴에도 갑자기 다양한 색깔의 알 수 없는 줄들이 그려졌지요. 공포에 빠진 마을 사람들은 그 원인을 알아내기 위해 보안관을 멀리 보내고, 마침내 보안관은 언덕 넘어에서 상상을 초월하는 것을 발견합니다...
마지막 페이지를 열면 기가 막힌 반전이 기다리고 있습니다.
튼튼한 | 닫기x |  What is 하드커버?
양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다.
판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.
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Edition: Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 039567347X
ISBN-13: 9780395673478
책 크기: 28.8 cm x 22.3 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
Riverbend was a quiet little town, the kind of place where one day was just like all the rest and nothing ever happened. Occasionally the stagecoach rolled through, but it never stopped, because no one ever came to Riverbend and no one ever left. The day the stagecoach stood motionless in the center of town, Sheriff Ned Hardy knew something was terribly wrong. What was the mysterious substance on both coach and horses? It would not come off. Soon it was everywhere in the tidy little village. Something had to be done, and Sheriff Hardy aimed to do it.
Publisher's Weekly
Van Allsburg cuts loose with this inventive spoof that will keep readers guessing right up to the end. Riverbend is "the kind of place where one day was just like the rest," and it looks it, too-a simple collection of block houses and buildings outlined in black and white. Color soon appears on the scene, however, in the form of scribbles-"great stripes of some kind of shiny, greasy slime"-that puzzle and alarm the residents of Riverbend. Sheriff Ned Hardy aims to put an end to the mystery, and rides out with a posse in search of the answer. Turns out he and his townsfolk are actually trapped in a coloring book, a fact readers discover as the point of view shifts, pulls back and reveals a crayon-wielding hand coloring the pages with glee. Van Allsburg clearly had fun with this one, and readers likely will too. All ages.
Children's Literature
Author/illustrator Van Allsburg delights in tales that tread along the borders of reality. His latest offering is no exception, but unfortunately the story is sparse and aimed at children too young to enjoy the shifting perspective. Riverbend is beset by some awful presence, which leaves the townsfolk and the surrounding area smeared with greasy, slimy marks. At the end of this standard "sheriff rides out with posse to save the day" story, we realize that Riverbend exists only in a coloring book, and that a young child's scribbles are the scars marring the town. This book does not invite repeated readings.
The imagination of this noted children's author (Polar Express, Jumanji) is mind-boggling. The storytelling comes from a sheriff with a serious problem on his hands-his posse is being streaked with greasy orange slashes that seem to come from a light in the western sky. Actually, the book is drawn to look like a coloring book and those waxy stripes all over the cowboys and horses are crayon marks made by a youngster. What a humorous and enriching opportunity for kids to seee things from another point of view. But hide the crayons-coloring may be irresistible.
School Library Journal
In this fantastical Wild West story set in an actual coloring book, the ``quiet little town'' of Riverbend is mysteriously invaded by a slimy substance-crayon marks from a child's scribbles-that has the effect of stunning and paralyzing people and animals. Sheriff Ned Hardy and his men set out to get to the bottom of what has been terrorizing the town. In the end, they, too, are stopped in their tracks by the waxy slime as a child, armed with a full range of crayolas, is shown coloring in the last page of her ``Cowboy Coloring Book.'' The illustrations of the town that readers see in the first pages are, appropriately, clean black-line drawings-not the rich, multidimensional illustrations usually associated with Van Allsburg's work. Like Jumanji (1981) and Ben's Dream (1982, both Houghton), this book's creative plot steps beyond the boundaries of reality, and because of its spare, coloring-book context, the artwork must also go beyond the artist's typical style. Larger collections will want to keep up with Van Allsburg's innovativeness, but this effort is pretty much a one-trick pony that most libraries can easily skip.
BookList
This may not be a book to "re"read, but the central joke is clever the first time through, and children will want to share it as soon as they figure out what's happening. Set in the Old West, the story concerns certain strange phenomena: a blinding light that freezes whatever it touches and, when the light has passed, marks of "greasy slime" on horses, buildings, cattle, and even people in the frontier town and surrounding countryside. For most of the book, the artwork consists of bold, black outlines of figures on a white background, brightened in spots with loosely scribbled lines of color resembling a small child's crayoning. In the last few pages, the picture broadens into a shaded, full-color scene of a small child crayoning in a cowboy coloring book. Pair this with Elizabeth MacDonald's "John's Picture" (1990), in which the characters in a child's picture draw their own companions and setting. |
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