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* Publishers Weekly Best Book
* Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
Caldecott 수상작가인 Kadir Nelson의 펜과 물감을 이용한 아름다운 세밀화 그림이 독자들의 눈을 즐겁게 해주는 책입니다.
미국 전래동화인 거인 제이브의 이야기입니다. 어린 소녀 노예 에디가 낚시를 갔지만 하루 종일 고기를 한 마리도 낚지를 못한 대신에 바구니에 담겨서 떠내려 오는 아이를 발견합니다. 집으로 데리고 온 바구니 속의 아이 제이브는 불과 몇 달만에 쑥쑥 자라서, 이 세상의 누구보다도 힘이 센 거인이 됩니다. 제이브는 농장의 목화밭에 달려 있는 모든 목화들을 하루만에 따버리는가 하면 순식간에 지붕을 고치고, 병든 말을 기운차고 힘센 말로 고치는 능력도 보여줍니다. 하지만 어느날 제이브는 아무 말도 없이 감쪽 같이 사라지고...
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Edition : Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0060540613
ISBN-13: 9780060540616
책 크기: 27.8cm x 23.5cm
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Annotation
Momma Mary tells stories about a special young man who does wondrous things, especially for the slaves on the Plenty Plantation.
From the Publisher
When a young slave named Addy goes fishing one spring day, she doesn't catch any fish. Instead, she finds a little boy in a basket floating in the river. Jabe is no ordinary boy: in a few short months, he grows to be a big, strong man with the strength of fifty. He can pick an entire field of cotton by himself in just one night and day. Why, he even has the power to turn a tired old workhorse into a young filly ready to race! When slaves begin to miraculously disappear from the Plenty Plantation, Addy knows in her heart that Jabe is the reason why.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Tall-tale-hero Jabe is informed by echoes of traditional folk heroes like High John the Conquerer, John Henry, and old Toby from 'The People Could Fly.' Nelson's illustrations evoke a sense of bucolic beauty on the one hand and tall-tale merriment on the other.
Publishers Weekly
With an unmistakable reference to the story of Moses, a captive discovers a boy floating in a basket. The collaborators here "use superhuman elements to distill all-too-human truths, and empower the audience to confront an unbearable history and come away with hope," wrote PW in a boxed review. Ages 6-up. (Jan.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Folklore and history give an uncommonly rich patina to this freshly inspiring original tale set in slavery times. Readers will immediately recognize that Nolen (Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm) has set her sights high: the tale opens with an unmistakable reference to the story of Moses in the bulrushes. Addy, a slave on the Plenty Plantation, discovers a boy floating in a basket when Mr. Plenty sends her to fish by the riverbank. But the boy, Jabe, is no defenseless babe. To thank Addy for bringing him to shore, Jabe gives her a golden pear ("This must be the fruit of heaven," she sighs), and then plants its seeds by the river. Setting the pattern for many extraordinary feats to come, Jabe calls out to the fish that have eluded Addy's attempts to catch them, and they virtually fly right into Addy's wagon. Within a season, Jabe has grown into a full-grown man with "the strength of fifty" and the seeds have sprouted into a fruit-bearing pear tree. The plantation experiences unprecedented prosperity--but slaves begin to disappear without a trace. "Maybe Moses come in the night," says a slave still at the plantation, but Addy attributes the escapes to Jabe and that pear tree, with "the North Star shining through its branches." Nolen and Nelson give this inventively tall tale a welcome subtlety. The author draws on a variety of traditions: the equation of Moses with Harriet Tubman; the African-American folktale that gave its title to Virginia Hamilton's The People Could Fly; the legends of Paul Bunyan and John Henry; even the language of the Gospels. Nolen provides just enough information to enable readers to draw their own conclusions as to the identity of Big Jabe and the nature of the pear tree--and she makes readers want to ponder these questions. Nelson (Brothers of the Knight) resists the temptation of hyperbole. His finely hatched watercolor and gouache illustrations emphasize images of slave life; when he does depict Big Jabe's fantastic feats, his naturalistic style permits him to depict them with an apparent realism. In this way, Nelson supports Nolen in using superhuman elements to distill all-too-human truths. This eloquent tale neither demeans the characters nor forces readers to identify directly with the characters' suffering. Instead, author and artist empower the audience to confront an unbearable history and come away with hope.
Children's Literature
New in paperback is Jerdine Nolen's Big Jabe. This original tall tale reads like a retelling. Young Addy, a house slave and expert fisher woman, finds a basket in the river with a small boy in it. Sighting her empty basket, he calls "Fish, fish, where is you fish?/Jump to the wagon like Miss Addy wish!" The river roils and fish jump, hop, and fly to fill Addy's wagon. So begins the miracles of Jabe, who grows to a man in three months, can "weed a whole field of soybeans before sunup, hoe the back forty by midday, and mend ten miles of fence by sunset." And when the overseer torments slaves, they disappear without a trace. Nolen's readable writing springs to life with oral tradition conventions of strong similes, dialect delivered in conversations, easy-to-visualize scenes, overstatements, and lessons buried discerningly in the story. |
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