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Caldecott 수상작가인 모리스 센닥의 펜을 이용해서 그린 눈부시게 아름다운 세밀화가 돋보이는 책입니다.
전쟁이 일어나자 엄마는 어린 소녀 밀리를 전쟁의 위험을 피해 산 속으로 들여 보냅니다. 밀리는 천사의 안내를 받아 성 요셉이 사는 숲속의 오두막집에서 3일간 머무릅니다. 3일 후 마을에 내려온 밀리는 동네의 모든 풍경이 바뀐 것에 놀라고, 집 앞에는 낮익은 노파가 햇볕을 쬐면서 앉아 있었는데... 그 노파는 바로 밀리의 엄마였어요. 산속에서 3일간 보내고 내려 왔으나, 사실은 30년의 세월이 흐른 것이었죠. 엄마는 밀리를 죽기 전에 꼭 한 번만이라도 보고 싶다던 평생의 한을 풀게 되고... 노파가 된 엄마와 밀리는 그날 밤 꼭 껴안고 영원히 돌아올 수 없는 저 세상으로의 여행을 떠납니다.
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Edition: Paperback: 38 pages
ISBN: 0062059068
책 크기: 24.6cm x 22.8cm
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Book Description
An old tale by Wilhelm Grimm newly translated by Ralph Manheim with pictures by Maurice Sendak. Young Mili escapes a horrible war by living for thirty years in the forest with a kindly and mysterious old man, in a long-lost Grimm tale, illustrated by the Caldecott Medalist for Where the Wild Things Are.
Publishers Weekly
Preserved in a letter written to a young girl, Mili, in 1816 and not discovered until 1983, the Grimm story is prefaced by a tender address in which he underscores the story's message: although there are many obstacles that can prevent people from being together, "one human heart can go out to another, undeterred by what lies between." The story that follows implies that love transcends even death. Like many fairy tales, this one deals with extraordinary events. A widow sends her child into the forest to protect her from an approaching war. The girl is led by her guardian angel past menacing cliffs and chasms to the house of Saint Joseph with whom she lives for three days. Before she goes back to the village, Saint Joseph gives her a rosebud as a symbol of her return to paradise; when the girl reaches her home, she finds that the three days have been in reality 30 years. "God has granted the widow's last wish" to see her daughter once again. In the morning, mother and child are found dead, with Saint Joseph's rose "in full bloom." Sendak's haunting interpretation of this stark tale is often more emotionally compelling than the story itself. Dear Mili is a variation on the themes of loss, separation and love that Sendak has explored before, most recently in Outside Over There . In the tradition of 19th century Sunday school literature, the plot and language of the text are often predictable and obviously preachy. For example, after Mili's long journey and prayer, a cleansing rain falls: "God and my heart are weeping together," she says. In an attempt to transcend the limitations of the religious story, Sendak infuses it with images that are both nonsectarian and universal. Trees and roots in the valley of death become grasping, whitened bones scattered beneath an outline reminiscent of buildings at Auschwitz. The images are rich: dark clouds of war are etched with claws of yellow fire, and paradise is filled not only with music, but with lush flowers that burst, like those of Van Gogh or O'Keeffe, with passionate life. The volume may have more appeal for adults than for children, but nonetheless it contains unforgettable artwork of resonant power. Michael di Capua Books. All ages.
School Library Journal
This is a problematic book: a potent combination of compelling pictures and a seriously disturbing text. Although the discovery of the tale in 1983 made front-page news, there is little novelty or originality to it. The story, found in a letter of 1816, is a pastiche of several ``religious tales.'' When war approaches, a widowed mother sends her beloved little daughter, protected by a guardian angel, into the forest, trusting God to bring her back in three days. The intrepid girl encounters St. Joseph, dutifully does what she is bid, shares her cake, and plays with the angel (now a doppel-ganger ). On the third day the angel-double leads her home, where she finds an ``old, old woman''her mother. In those 3 days, 30 years have passed, and the mother has suffered fear and misery during a great war, while mourning the daughter whom she believed dead. Mother and child happily spend the evening together, go to bedand are found dead in the morning. Separation, fear, violence, and even death are familiar elements in Grimms' tales: what is unsettling here is the treatment, the unanticipated mixture of fairy tale, realism, and religion. Our firm expectationsthat the child will be safeguarded by her mother's love, by God's Providence, and by her own staunch goodnessare brutally undermined by the ending. Publishing this pious parable as a picture book for children in 1988 makes W. Grimm look like a macabre forerunner of O. Henry. The pictures only compound the problem. Stunningly beautiful, in Sendak's elaborate neo-19th-Century style, packed with ``high art'' touches, their Romantic grace, cozy cottages, and abundant flowers all reinforce our feelings of security. Although the story hints strongly that when the heroine finds St. Joseph she is actually in Heaven, the setting offers no clarification on this point. The gorgeous art and the names Sendak and Grimm guarantee that this book will be requested. Warned by librarians and booksellers, parents might at least choose to modify or omit the last few lines at bedtime readings. |
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