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[ 책 소개 ]
작가 Emily Arnold McCully가 1993년에 Caldecott 메달을 수상한 "Mirette on the High Wire"의 연작입니다.
공중 외줄타기의 명인 벨리니는 어린 미레트에게 외줄타기 기술의 모든 것을 가르쳐 줍니다. 이제 둘은 한 팀이 되어서 유럽 각국에서 공연을 합니다. 미레트는 세계 각구을 여행하면서 많은 것을 배우지요. 그러나 러시아에 갔을 때 그들은 혁명의 소용돌이 휘말리게 되고, 결국 벨리니는 감옥에 갇히게 됩니다. 미레트는 벨리니를 구하기 위해 목숨을 건 용감한 공연을 하게 되는데....
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Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN: 0698118227
책 크기 : 21.6cm x 28cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Annotation
After the Great Bellini teaches young Mirette to walk the high wire, she uses her talent to free him from prison, and both resolve to help others become free.
Publisher's Weekly
Mirette, the young French heroine who first charmed readers in McCully's Caldecott-winning Mirette on the High Wire, returns with more daring than ever in this politically charged sequel. The Great Bellini, the famous tightrope walker Mirette had befriended at her mother's boardinghouse, has invited her to be his wire-walking partner and teaches her all of his most spectacular routines. The amazing girl never loses her nerve, even while performing back flips and cartwheels more than 40 feet above the ground. But when the duo agrees to perform in St. Petersburg, Mirette comes face-to-face with a situation that frightens her more than any high-wire stunt. Bellini is imprisoned for speaking of freedom to the crowd of oppressed citizens, and Mirette's greatest test of courage will be to help her friend. McCully's turn-of-the-century Europe is ripe with old-world flavor. With her watercolor depictions of Russia's imposing architecture and heavily bundled peasants crowded into snowy streets and courtyards, McCully evokes a tense period in world history. Likewise, her scenes of activists discussing the cause of the people in dimly lit though well-appointed homes offer an insider's view of impending change. McCully wisely refrains from using specific dates or names in her fictionalized account and speaks of universal issues-hunger, hopelessness, hard times, freedom-that many children will grasp. An ambitious and satisfying work.
Children's Literature
At long last, a sequel to Mirette on the High Wire! Red-haired Mirette with the spirit of ten is back, and this time she's travelling with master wirewalker Bellini, who is showing her everything he knows. They perform in Budapest, in Vienna, in Paris-and then it's on to St. Petersburg. Little does Mirette know that the Death Walk she has just learned will be put to use under most critical and dangerous circumstances. This is about conquering fear and doing what is right. Then, of course, there's always Niagara Falls-with any luck, that will be another book.
Children's Literature
Emily McCully's Starring Mirette & Bellini is a companion to her Caldecott-winning Mirette on the High Wire. Her first book is a hard act to follow, but McCully triumphs and we see Mirette's determination and dedication in a very dangerous situation. Mirette learned tight rope walking in the first story and by the second she's touring Europe with Bellini. She has yet, however to learn the Death Walk, where one walks blindfolded up an inclined wire. Mirette finds the concentration and courage to perform this feat when she rescues Bellini from a Russian jail after he has spoken out about freedom. Viewing the sadness of turn of the century Russian, especially the poverty of body and soul, through the eyes of a young child, McCully also takes her characters from a small community to larger world where they walk the wire showing people "that everything is possible!"
School Library Journal
The young star of the 1992 Caldecott winner, Mirette on the High Wire (Putnam, 1992), is now a full-fledged partner of the great Bellini. Together, they perform incredible feats across Europe culminating in a series of backwards somersaults on the Eiffel Tower. There is, however, one more sequence that Bellini can teachthe Death Walk. While Mirette is still practicing it, they are invited to perform in St. Petersburg where they will cross the frozen Neva River. When Bellini exhorts the czar-oppressed crowds to work for freedom, he is arrested and it falls to Mirette to rescue himusing the Death Walk to reach his prison cell. The attempt is successful and back in the cozy comfort of Paris the two ponder the merits of a journey to Niagara Falls. McCully's technique is the same as in the previous title, watercolors in an impressionistic style. However, the strong use of white that the artist employed in Mirette on the High Wire to focus attention is not present in the sequel. Some double-page spreads are too hazy and the darkness of the night when Mirette is reaching out to Bellini does not adequately convey the desperate daring of the midnight rescue. Still, fans of Mirette will certainly enjoy this second outing.
Kirkus Reviews
Alas for sequelitis, which so often produces watered-down offspring from even the most venerable parentage! When the great aerialist and his carrot-topped young partner cap off their European tour with a performance in St. Petersburg, Mirette comments on all the impoverished peasants; Bellini, with the encouragement of some friends, assures the crowd that they will one day be free. The czar's soldiers arrest him. The next night, having conveniently located Bellini's cell window, Mirette walks a wire (shot by a handy crossbow) in darkness and hands him a hacksaw. A page later they're in Paris. While McCully informs her figures and turn-of-the-century locales with the same grace and vigor that earned Mirette on the High Wire (1991) its Caldecott Medal, small vignette illustrations on two spreads seem, confusingly, suspended in midair; in the arrest scene, Mirette's costume is slightly different in scenes on the wire, platform, and ground. Combined with the agenda-laden, drastically abbreviated plotline, such bobbles, though minor, ground this follow-up.
Booklist
A sequel to Mirette on the High Wire (1992), this follows high-wire artist Bellini and his young protege, Mirette, across Europe, from Paris to St. Petersburg. The theme is freedom, played out on the stage of history, but with a personal slant that makes it more concrete and comprehensible to a young audience. After observing Russia's poor from the train and talking with friends about the widespread hunger, hopelessness, and czarist oppression, Bellini follows a well-attended high-wire performance with a statement of hope and freedom to the crowd. Soldiers immediately imprison Bellini. Mirette bravely walks a high wire in the darkness to set him free. Like the Caldecott Medal^-winning Mirette, this picture book features watercolor-and-pastel artwork in an impressionistic style. Scenes of Mirette and Bellini in close-up and on the wire are set against cityscape backdrops that include nineteenth-century Paris, Milan, and St. Petersburg. The night scenes, with their evocation of forms in darkness, are particularly dramatic. Children intrigued with Mirette will be pleased not only with her Russian adventure but also with the closing scene, which hints that she and Bellini may be crossing Niagara Falls in the near future. |
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