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Caldecott 수상작인 "Coming On Home Soon"과 Newbery 수상작인 "Feathers"와 "After Tupac and D Foster"의 저자인 Jacqueline Woodson이 글을 쓰고, "Zen Shorts"로 Caldecott 상을 수상한 Jon J. Muth가 그림을 그린 감동적인 내용의 책입니다.
존슨과 그의 누나 비비는 이 세상에 홀로 남겨진 듯한 느낌이 들었습니다. 엄마가 전에도 종종 가출을 하곤 했지만, 이번에는 왠지 전과 달리 집으로 돌아올 것 같지 않았습니다. 아이들만 남겨지게 되자, 사회복지사가 와서 아이들을 그레이시 이모와 함께 살도록 주선해줬습니다. 아이들은 태어나서 한번도 그레이시 이모를 만난 적이 없었습니다. 그리고 이모가 자신들을 잘 돌봐줄 수 있을지 확신이 들지 않았습니다. 무엇보다도 소식이 끊긴 엄마가 어디서 사고를 당한 것은 아닌지, 엄마를 다시 볼 수 있게 될런지 걱정이 되었습니다.
하지만 그레이시 이모는 아이들을 깊은 사랑으로 돌봐주고, 아이들은 점차 이모에 대한 신뢰가 생기면서 가족이란 무엇인지 깨닫게 됩니다. 비록 친부모는 아닐지라도, 친척이든 입양한 가정이든 서로를 돌보며 사랑을 나누는 관계, 이것이 바로 가족이지요...
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Edition: Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0786806206
ISBN-13: 978-0786806201
책 크기: 29.3 cm x 23.8 cm
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Book Description
Johnson and his sister, Beebee, seem to be all alone in the world. Their mama has gone away many times before, but something tells them that this time she won't be coming back. Then a social worker comes and takes them to meet their Aunt Gracie. Beebee barely remembers her, and Mama never even told Johnson about her. They wonder where she's been all this time—and why she would want to take care of them. Warily, though, the children begin to trust Aunt Gracie. And in the process, they come to a better understanding of what it means to be a family.
Publishers Weekly
Woodson's (Miracle's Boys) affecting story introduces a boy and girl seemingly abandoned by their mother. "Sometimes my mama went away for a day. Sometimes for a lot of days. That's how it was with our mama," says Johnson. A kind woman appears at the door, explaining that her job "is to make sure little kids get taken care of"; it sounds good to Johnson, but his more cynical older sister, Beebee, warns him the woman means foster care: "It's when you live with somebody that's not your mama." Eventually, the woman drives the siblings to their mother's sister, who is estranged from their mother. Aunt Gracie is as warm and welcoming as her clapboard house with its sprawling porch, flowerbeds and tire swing. Johnson is enchanted by the idyllic setting and by his aunt, who bakes cookies and tucks him in at bedtime, and even Beebee slowly warms up to her. After a visit to their apparently hospitalized mother, who assures them that Gracie will care for them until she is able to, the two return to Gracie's open arms. Muth's (Gershon's Monster) spare paintings, often set as vignettes against a white background, effectively convey the children's sense of isolation and, later, belonging. Muth evokes the characters' emotions and supplies information that Woodson wisely omits from Johnson's narration (the emptiness of the apartment, with the children's spilled glasses and broken toy; the hospital setting). Because of Woodson and Muth's restraint, the rosy qualities of this tale do not impair its emotional truth.
Children's Literature
Woodson's Our Gracie Aunt is a book for older readers. The opening scene introduces young Johnson, his older sister, Beebee, and Miss Roy, a social worker who is worried about how long their mother has been away. Johnson is confused, Beebee fears foster care, but Miss Roy takes them to their Aunt Gracie. There are a lot of emotions packed into a few pages, but Woodson does so gracefully and the characters seem real. Aunt Gracie's life seems unreal to both the children and it appears so to adult readers sharing this book with children. While Johnson and Beebee's urban apartment is stark and bleak, Aunt Gracie has a big house in the country, a large yard and even a tire swing. Gracie's a cookie-baking, tucking-in aunt who wins over even the resistant Beebee. This Woodson book is more obviously a book-for-children-who-need-it, and the overly pretty picture is uncharacteristic for Woodson. Though the book is message-laden, the messages are important, told through character, and well-written. Foster children will be comforted when Aunt Gracie tells the children, "just because a person goes away, doesn't mean they don't love you." And when the children's mama tells them, "Even when a mama loves you, she can't always take care of you. Sometimes she has to go away." Still, Woodson's gift of plumbing the depths shines through. Her characters become round with quick brush-strokes. She shows us Johnson's odd mix of happy guilt, the building and crumbling of Beebee's defensive walls, how these children find comfort in a nurturing they've never before experienced, and the complexities of caring about people.
School Library Journal
When a woman comes to their apartment one night, Beebee tells her brother, Johnson, not to open the door. And when she comes back the next morning, asking where their mother is, and how long she's been gone, Beebee says "someplace" and "a few minutes." But, in reality, the children's mother has been gone for days, and Miss Roy is the social worker who eventually takes them to live with their Aunt Gracie. Told in an understated, neutral tone by Johnson, this story packs a powerful punch. Aunt Gracie is loving and warm, and at her house there is always something to eat and a tuck-in every night. Toward the end of the book, the children visit their mother, who says, "Even when a mama loves you, she can't always take care of you." The book concludes with the youngsters having a secure home with Aunt Gracie, and the hope that their mother will eventually be able to take care of them again. This is a sensitive treatment of children entering family foster care. Wistful, subtle watercolor illustrations perfectly suit the bittersweet poignancy of the text. |
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