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* A Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 수상도서


이 책에 등장하는 단어는 "Ball" 오직 하나입니다. 그런데 Ball 한 단어로 재미있는 스토리가 이어지고, 그림은 만화 형식으로 그려져 있어서 영어를 전혀 몰라도 아기부터 어른까지 누구나 재미있게 즐길 수 있습니다.

첫페이지를 열면 이른 아침, 한 침대에서 자고 있는 소녀와 개 한마리가 보입니다. 개는 빨간 공을 입에 물고 있네요.
개는 잠에서 깨자마자 소녀에게 공을 던져달라고 합니다. 아침 내내 소녀 주위를 맴돌면서 계속 공을 던져 달라고 하고, 그때마다 소녀는 마다않고 계속 공을 던져 줍니다.

하지만 소녀가 학교에 가자, 개는 너무나도 심심합니다. 명상 중인 엄마에게 가서 공을 던져 달라고 하지만 엄마는 눈도 뜨지 않네요. 흔들의자에 누워있는 아기, 소파에 있는 고양이, 심지어 빨래바구니에게도 공을 던져달라고 하지만 집안에는 개를 위해 공을 던져줄 사람이 없네요. 소녀의 침대에 누워서 낮잠을 자는데, 공을 잃어버리는 악몽까지 꾸게 됩니다.

거실에서 혼자 뒹굴거리고 있는데, 어디선가 들려오는 발자국 소리. 개의 눈이 동그랗게 커지고, 꼬리는 모터를 단 것처럼 빠르게 돌아갑니다. 개는 볼을 물고 현관쪽으로 달려갑니다. 현관문이 열리고, 자신을 사랑해주는 소녀가 학교를 마치고 집으로 돌아왔네요. 소녀는 볼을 던져줄까 물어봅니다. 개는 저절로 콧노래가 나오네요...

아이와 부모가 함께 읽기 좋은 자이언트 사이즈의 튼튼한 랩 에디션(Lap Edition)

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What is 보드북? 보드북(Board Book)은 표지와 속지가 모두 두꺼운 카드보드지로 만들어진 책입니다. 잘 찢어지거나 구겨지지 않기 때문에 나이가 어린 아이들을 위한 책으로 주로 만들어지며, 책 내용도 원본에 비해 축약되는 경우가 많습니다. 주로 두장을 겹쳐 단단하고 오랫동안 눌려있을 경우 페이지와 페이지가 붙을 수 있습니다.

보드북입니다.






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Board book: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0544819012
ISBN-13: 978-0544819016
책크기: 26 cm x 23.4 cm



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Book Description
A dog with a ball is one of the most relentlessly hopeful creatures on Earth. After his best little-girl pal leaves for school, this dog hits up yoga mom, baby, and even the angry cat for a quick throw. No luck. Forced to go solo, the dog begins a hilarious one-sided game of fetch until naptime’s wild, ball-centric dream sequence. The pictures speak a thousand words in this comic book-style ode to canine monomania. Ball? Ball.
This lap board book edition is ideal for sharing.


School Library Journal
A humorous portrait of a dog with a one-track mind. Ball is a day-in-the-life portrait of a rumpled canine who lives and breathes to play fetch with his favorite human companion. When the girl goes to school, the dog is bereft; his beloved ball is lifeless. He tries to find other companions to fill the ball-throwing gap, but the adult is meditating, the baby isn't even mobile, and the cat is, well, a cat. The dog tries hiding the ball and then "finding" it, and eventually falls asleep and experiences an amusing ball-themed dream sequence that turns into a nightmare. At long last the pup's anguish is relieved as the girl comes home from school and they resume their happy rapport. The only text is the word "ball" repeated on every page; however, Sullivan adroitly infuses the canine with a wide variety of emotions, and a great deal can be read into that single word. The book uses a comic-strip layout for most of the pages, with a few spreads during the dream sequence. The digitally colored pencil drawings are full of action and energy and employ a muted palette dominated by yellows and oranges that give the book a warm 1970s feel. The proliferation of extra textures and flourishes that break the panels creates a lived-in, disheveled look to the drawings, which suits the bug-eyed, warts-and-all style used for the figures. A fine choice for independent readers and dog lovers everywhere.


Booklist
Bound like a picture book but a comic book in spirit, this title features a funny animal parading through clean, clear panels of sequential art, taking clever advantage of the form’s codes and symbols to tell the story of a love affair between a dog and a ball, an object which becomes the story’s single, repeated word of text. As the dog watches his master leave and wanders the house looking for someone to play ball with, his desperation and excitement are positively palpable. Working with classical cartooning devices, like large, round heads, big expressive eyes, and extreme emotional reactions, Sullivan has managed to create her own distinctive style, giving each character its own particular sense of humanity (even characters that aren’t human) and wrapping everything in a gentle yellow wash of nostalgia. Everything from the dog’s brief encounter with a cat to his extended, ball-centric dream, told in full-page drawings, will make viewers giggle along with the story. Even those who have never had or wanted a dog will find themselves pining for a canine companion with similarly irresistible exuberance.


Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
"Illustrator Sullivan makes a hilarious debut as an author by touring the brain of a ball-obsessed dog. . . . It's a paean to the neurotic single-mindedness of dogs, and a brilliant study of boredom."


Kirkus
"Deceptively simple little winner for dog lovers."


Bulletin
"Sullivan deftly captures doggy poses that run the spectrum from ecstasy to dejection. . . this will be a natural decode-alone for kids who are accustomed to parsing pictures, and they'll delight in the ability to read it all themselves."


The New York Times Online
"Ball is one long joke, but a good one. . . . Get this dog a frisbee and a follow-up."