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[ 책 소개 ]
* An American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists" Selection
* PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) Storytime Selection
"Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child"와 "Queenie, One of the Family"로 매년 영국에서 가장 우수한 그림책에 수여하는 Kate Greenaway상을 수상한 역국을 대표하는 그림책 작가 Bob Graham의 작품입니다.
동네 아이들이 모두 힘을 합쳐 커다란 종이 박스로 만든 집을 공원에 싣고 왔습니다. 하지만 욕심 많은 죠지는 이 집이 자기집이라고 우기네요. 집 안에 들어간 죠지는 아이들이 집 안으로 들어 오지 못하게 합니다. 아이들이 이 집에 들어 올 수 없는 이유도 여러가지네요.
여자 아이 출입금지, 키 작은 아이 출입금지, 쌍둥이 출입금지, 안경 쓴 아이 출입금지, 터널을 좋아하는 아이 출입금지...
혼자서 집을 독차지하고 있던 죠지는 갑자기 오줌이 마려웠습니다. 죠지가 화장실에 간 사이에 아이들은 모두 집 안으로 들어 갔습니다. 이제 집이 꽉 차서 화장실에서 돌아 온 죠지는 들어간 틈이 없었지요. 죠지는 소리치고, 울고, 발로 차면서 집 안으로 들여 보내달라고 했지만 소용이 없었지요. 그러다 문득 죠지는 깨닫습니다. 혼자서 독자치 하는 것 보다는 여럿이서 함게 나누는 것이 훨씬 즐겁다는 것을...
아이들은 죠지를 집 안으로 들어오게 하지만 너무 많은 아이들로 채워지는 바람에 집은 부숴지고, 죠지를 포함한 모든 아이들은 힘을 합쳐 집을 다시 만듭니다...
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0763628166
ISBN-13: 978-0763628161
책 크기: 25 cm x 23 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
George has a house made from a big cardboard box, and he says that no one else at the playground can come in. Not Lindy, because George's house "isn't for girls," nor Freddie, because it "isn't for small people." Sophie can't come in because, George says, "This house isn't for people with glasses." But when George leaves his house for a moment, everyone piles in, and on his return, George gets a taste of his own medicine. Aided by Bob Graham's striking illustrations of an urban playground, Michael Rosen tells the tale of a little boy who makes a big discovery -- that letting everyone into his playhouse is a lot more fun than keeping them out.
Publishers Weekly
Rosen and Graham (Rose Meets Mr. Wintergarten) use a light touch to deliver an important lesson. In the shadows of an apartment complex, redheaded George sits in his cardboard-box house and won't let any of his multicultural cadre of friends come near it. He bans them for different but always personal reasons?because they're girls, or too small, or wear glasses, etc. George's friends try to get him to open up his house by weaving him into their play: "We're coming in to fix the fridge," announce twins Charlene and Marlene, while Luther sends his toy airplane crashing into the house and tells George that he must rescue it. But George will not budge until, finally, nature calls. Taking over the house, his friends turn the tables on George and force him to see the error of his ways. Rosen has an instinctive feel for the way children confront one another, ponder, negotiate and form alliances?every word of the trenchant text rings true. Graham's squiggly, cartoon-like illustrations convey George's physically aggressive stubbornness and the dismay of his friends, but leaven the scenes with imaginative details. On the other hand, Graham risks subverting Rosen's message on the last spread: when the entire gang finally convenes in the "house," the box proves a little too small after all?it falls apart.
School Library Journal
A cardboard box on an urban playground is the setting for this exploration of discrimination. George is in a cardboard "house" and declares that "This house is all for me!" As the other kids try to join him, he gives them his reasons why they cannot enter: no girls, no small people, etc. Race is not mentioned. The children try different approaches to soften George, but nothing works. Finally he has to use the bathroom, and when he returns the house is full. Charlene tells him, "This house isn't for people with red hair," and he shouts, cries, stamps, and punches. Then he realizes what the others have known all along: "This house is for everyone!" The playground setting helps keep the book from being weighed down by the important, but obvious, message. Graham uses watercolors and crayons to highlight the main action on each page, while gray-shaded drawings fill out the backgrounds. There are no lectures in the text; the kids work out the problem on their own using actions rather than speeches. The solution is not completely satisfying, as George learns his lesson only when he is given the same treatment he gave others. More important, though, is the children's unerring confidence that they do belong in the house, and their willing inclusion of George in the end. There are obvious opportunities for discussion and sharing here, but the book speaks for itself in a clear and engaging manner. |
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