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[ 책 소개 ]
* An ALA Notable Book
* Booklist Editors' Choice
* Jefferson Cup Award Honor Book
19세기 중반부터 20세기 초반까지 뉴욕의 넘쳐나는 고아들에게 가정을 찾아주기 위해 "고아열차"라는 특별기차를 운행했습니다. 많은 고아들을 고아열차에 탑승시킨 후 서부쪽으로 가면서 역마다 정차시킵니다. 역에는 고아를 입양하려고 하는 사람들이 기다리고 있으며, 점차 서쪽으로 갈수록 고아들의 수가 줄어듭니다. 실화를 바탕으로 한 이 그림책에는 마지막으로 양부모를 만나게 된 메리앤이라는 소녀를 1인칭 화자로 해서 총 14명의 고아들을 태우고 뉴욕에서 시카고를 거쳐 서쪽으로 운행한 고아열차의 이야기가 감동적으로 펼쳐집니다.
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Edition : Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN: 0618040315
책 크기 : 26cm x 22.8cm
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Book Description
In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family.
Based on the Orphan Trains what crisscrossed the United States from the 1850s to the 1920s, the latest collaboration between Eve Bunting and Ronald Himler tells the story of Marianne, who's sure that her mother will claim her somewhere on her way west. Full color.
Publishers Weekly
Inspired by a little-known chapter of American history, this characteristically incisive collaboration from Bunting and Himler (Someday a Tree, see p. 90; Fly Away Home) imagines a journey on one of the many "Orphan Trains" that, between the mid-1850s and the late 1920s, brought children from New York City orphanages to adoptive families in the West. The narrator of this finely crafted, heart-wrenching story is Marianne, a plain girl secretly dreaming of being reunited with her own mother, who promised to return for Marianne after making a new life for them in the West. Bunting ably weaves the girl's hopes and anxieties into her perceptive account of how each of Marianne's 13 companions is chosen for adoption at the various train stations while she futilely searches the crowd for her mother. Finally only Marianne remains. In the tale's optimistic ending, Marianne finds a new family in Somewhere, Iowa, the train's last stop. Here an elderly couple, who clearly had planned on adopting a boy, take Marianne in, with ultimately comforting, resonant words: "Sometimes what you get turns out to be better than what you wanted in the first place." Himler's watercolor and gouache paintings offer polished portraits of the period as they convey the plot's considerable emotion. Like Bunting's text, his art is at once sobering and uplifting-and assuredly memorable.
Children's Literature
Eve Bunting has always been an author who sheds light on emotional issues. Recently she has turned her writing talents to historical subjects. Train to Somewhere illuminates the times of the Orphan Trains, which ran from the mid-1850's to 1920, bringing an estimated 100,000 homeless children by train from New York City to small towns and farms in the Midwest. Bunting's tale tells the story of Marianne, a young female orphan, traveling with thirteen others on an orphan train. Bunting's genius shows when she takes the general subject into the specific by showing us Marianne's hopes, dreams, and disappointment. Marianne's mother, leaving her at the orphanage, has promised she'd make a new life for them in the West, and return before Christmas, but Marianna has "waited through so many Christmases." Still she hopes to be greeted by her mother at every stop the train makes. Her journey, marred by rude comments and rejection, turns Marianne's dreams to disappointment. She is, finally, the last orphan, headed to the last stop, the town of Somewhere. The train is greeted by an elderly couple who'd hoped for a boy, but welcome her lovingly. The woman speaks of her happy late-in-life marriage, saying "sometimes what you get turns out to be better than what you wanted in the first place." Marianne's dreams of finding her mother begin to fade in her new hopes for a secure home with people who care about her. - Susie Wilde
School Library Journal
From the mid-19th century until after World War I, thousands of homeless "orphans" were sent West by charitable agencies to find homes with families seeking workers, children to adopt, or mother's helpers. In telling the story of one child, Bunting encapsulates the fears and sometimes happy endings of those fateful trips. Marianne is among the oldest and least attractive of the 14 children sent on a train to the Midwest, and she starts the journey with hopes that her mother will be waiting at one of the stops. At each station, papers are signed and children are placed, until only Marianne remains when the last town of Somewhere is reached. Only an elderly couple, hoping for a boy, is waiting there. They look kindly at Marianne, and the grandmotherly wife sums up the story's theme when she remarks that "Sometimes what you get turns out to be better than what you wanted in the first place." By making this slice of American history into an appealing tale, Bunting offers an opportunity to compare present-day social policies with those of times past. The book is timely yet universal in showing the desire of every child for a loving family. Himler's full-page, bordered paintings portray the people and towns in warm colors and softly blended brush strokes. Beyond this gentle story lie the social issues of our own day.-Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
Kirkus Reviews
A moving piece of Americana from a veteran team (Fly Away Home, 1992, etc.), introducing the orphan trains of the 19th and early 20th century to a pictur| 닫기x |  What is e-book?
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