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[ 책 소개 ]
* 1995 Caldecott Medal 수상작
* An ALA Notable Children's Book
* A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
* A Parent's Choice Award
1994년 로스엔젤레스를 휩쓴 흑인 폭동을 바라보는 흑인 소년과 이 폭동의 와중에서 큰 피해를 한국인이 주요 인물로 등장하는 그림책입니다.
백인 경관의 흑인 구타를 계기로 발생한 이 폭동은 엉뚱하게도 LA 중심가의 한인타운에 밀집한 한국인 상점들이 약탈되고 불타는 커다란 피해를 입었습니다. 김씨 아줌마 역시 운영하던 식품점에 폭도들이 몰려와 모든 것을 약탈해 갔지요. 아파트 창문에서 이 광경을 지켜보던 흑인 소년은 평소에는 김씨 아줌마가 같은 인종이 아니라는 이유로 그 가게를 이용하지 않았지요. 그리고 무엇보다도 김씨 아줌마 고양이와 소년이 기르는 고양이는 앙숙관계였어요. 폭동이 휩쓸고 지나간 후 건물들이 불길에 휩싸이고, 동네 사람들과 흑인소년, 그리고 김씨 아줌마는 임시 보호소에서 같이 하루밤을 지내게 됩니다.
서로의 처지를 위로하는 소년의 엄마와 김씨 아줌마... 그리고 얼마후 소방관이 품에 무엇인가를 안고 나타났는데... 그 것은 바로 잃어버렸던 흑인 소년의 고양이와 김씨 아줌마의 고양이였어요. 평소에는 그렇게 앙숙이었던 두 고양이가 불이 난 건물의 계단 밑에서 서로 꼭 껴안고 있는 것을 발견한 것이었죠. 이제는 두 고양이가 한 접시에 따라준 우유를 함께 마실만큼 친해졌어요. 소년의 엄마는 김씨 아줌마를 초대하면서 이야기는 끝을 맺지요.
미국사회의 가장 큰 문제거리인 인종갈등을 소재로 한 뛰어난 그림책입니다. David Diaz의 다양한 소재를 이용한 콜라쥬 그림과 독특하고 강렬한 화풍의 유화가 눈을 사로잡습니다.
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Edition: Hardcover: 40 pages
ISBN: 0152699546
책 크기: 25.6cm x 25.6cm
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BookList
Bunting says she wrote this story after the Los Angeles riots made her wonder about what riots mean to the children who live through them. A boy and his cat look down from the window at people rioting in the streets below. His mother explains that rioting can happen when people get angry: "They want to smash and destroy. They don't care anymore what's right and wrong." The boy says that they look angry, but they look happy, too. He sees them looting Mrs. Kim's grocery store across the street; his mother never shopped there. That night, the apartment building burns, and everyone has to rush out to the shelter. The boy's cat is gone, and so is Mrs. Kim's cat, but a kind fire fighter finds both animals; they were hiding together. Then Bunting overstates her message: maybe the people, like the cats, need to get to know each other, so the boy's mother and Mrs. Kim agree to visit. Diaz's art is powerful--pulsating and crowded; part street mural, part urban collage. In each double-page spread, the background is a photograph of found objects and debris in a variety of textures and jagged shapes. On the right-hand page is an acrylic painting like a view through a heavy window, with thick lines and bright neon colors showing a multicultural cast. In fine contrast, the story is told quietly from the child's point of view, safe with his mother despite the fear, reaching out to the neighborhood community within the chaos. - From Hazel Rochman
From School Library Journal
K-Gr 3-Daniel and his mother watch through their window as an urban riot is in progress. She tries to explain what is happening as he sees the laughing people break into the neighborhood stores and rob them. One of the victims is Mrs. Kim, whose cat is the enemy of his cat, Jasmine. Daniel's mother doesn't shop at Mrs. Kim's store because she feels it's better to ``buy from our own people.'' Later, their building is set on fire and he and his mother go with their neighbors to a shelter. The boy worries about Jasmine, and is relieved when a fireman brings her and Mrs. Kim's cat to the shelter. The felines have learned to get along in their shared danger. Bunting skillfully uses the voice of the child narrator. His innocent view of the riots makes the destructive behavior of the rioters more abhorrent. His suggestion that the cats were enemies only because they did not know each other well enough enables the adults to reach out to one another and bridge the distance their prejudice has kept between them. Diaz illustrates the story with bold, dark, stylized acrylic paintings framed by collage backgrounds of various textured objects usually reflecting the text. When the rioters loot a dry cleaners, for example, the background is wire hangers and plastic film. The pictures are more arresting than appealing, but they invite discussion and will stimulate thoughtful responses to this quietly powerful story.-Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ
From Susie Wilde
Daniel and his mother are witnesses to urban riots. From his window, Daniel watches the dark streets in confusion as his mother tries to explain looting, mob anger, and neighborhood animosities. When fire makes them seek refuge in a shelter, a Korean neighbor becomes a real person and personal prejudice begins to heal. Diaz conveys the strong message by placing dramatic insets in his powerful collages. - Children's Literature
From Jan Lieberman
This book, the Caldecott Award winner for the year's finest illustrations, is a story of tolerance placed in the violent setting of the LA riots. The illustrations are collages that add intrigue and extend the story. Shattered glass surrounds a picture of looting; spilled multi-colored cereal accents items spilled from grocery store thieving; and plastic bags describe the senseless stealing from a dry cleaner. The young hero is confused by the chaos and frightened by fire, smashed glass, and his missing cat. His protective mother calmly explains every part of the night's madness. But it is the boy who is the agent of change when he notices how his cat has made friends with another cat; an enemy cat belonging to the Korean woman who owns the grocery down the street. The Korean woman, who had always seemed different and separate becomes a friend in the shelter during the smoky night. This book would be incredibly helpful for children who have shared the protagonist's experience. It is a meaningful book to talk about the violence that surrounds today's children. Unfortunately, I don't think its a book that will profoundly affect children over broad geographic areas or over time. - Children's Literature
From Selma G. Lanes
'Smoky Night' falls into {the} . . . category of knock-'em-dead artwork for an au courant if less than riveting story. Young children are unlikely to be satisfied. They are, in the end, impassioned and highly impressionable, eager to make sense of the world around them and pleased when what they perceiveas being good and right prevails. In {this book} evil goes unpunished, undefined and almost unacknowledged. True, the author would have us believe that because two feuding pet cats--one belonging to the story's black narrator, the other to a Korean storekeeper--have become friends as a result of a horrific trial by fire, then so too will their owners. This is likely to seem a dubioustriumph to young listeners, who will be worrying that the book's victims havebeen left temporarily homeless, their neighborhood in ruins. - The New York Times Book
From Betsy Hearne - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
It's the authentic child's perspective that makes the tale so touching. What impresses Daniel in the midst of an adult-size crisis are the kind of details that adults wouldn't notice ('I've never seen a bigger jar of mayo,' he observes in the shelter) or wouldn't be honest about ('Mrs. Kim takes her big, fat, mean old orange cat and holds him close'). It's these very observations that lead Daniel to a truth about what caused the riot to begin with. Diaz has not been afraid to take risks in illustrating the story with thickly textured paintings against a background of torn-paper and found-object collage. . . .Both author and artist have managed to portray a politically charged event without pretension or preaching.
From Publisher's Weekly
Bunting addresses urban violence in this thought-provoking and visually exciting picture book inspired by the Los Angeles riots. Although they're neighbors, Daniel's cat and Mrs. Kim's cat don't get along. Nor do Daniel and his mother shop at Mrs. Kim's market. ``It's better if we buy from our own people,'' Daniel's mother says. But when Daniel's apartment building goes up in flames, all of the neighbors (including the cats) learn the value of bridging differences. Bunting does not explicitly connect her message about racism with the riots in her story's background, but her work is thoroughly believable and taut, steering clear of the maudlin or didactic. Diaz's dazzling mixed-media collages superimpose bold acrylic illustrations on photographs of carefully arranged backgrounds that feature a wide array of symbolic materials--from scraps of paper and shards of broken glass to spilled rice and plastic dry-cleaner bags. Interestingly, Diaz doesn't strongly differentiate the presumably Asian American Mrs. Kim from the African American characters--even the artwork here cautions the reader against assumptions about race. - Publishers Weekly |
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