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* ALA Notable Children's Books
* Boston Globe/Horn Book Award 수상작
* Golden Kite Award 수상작
* Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
* CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
* Capitol Choices List (DC)
* Keystone to Reading Book Award Master List
* NCTE Charlotte Huck Outstanding Fiction Honor Title
* Wisconsin State Reading Association's Reading List


All the World로 Caldecott상을 수상한 저명한 Illustrator인 말라 프레이지의 또 하나의 대표작입니다. 이 책은 글이 없이 그림 만으로 메세지를 전달하는 Wordless Book입니다.

서커스단을 싣고 가는 기차가 드넓은 평원을 가로질러 달리다가 그만 꼬마 광대가 기차에서 떨어지는 일이 벌어졌습니다. 기차는 이 사실도 모른 채 계속 달려 갔지요. 평원에서 혼자 외롭게 사는 농부가 이 광경을 보고는 기차에서 떨어진 꼬마 광대를 집으로 데려 갔습니다.

농부는 꼬마 광대를 먹이고, 씻기고, 재워줬습니다. 꼬마 광대가 잠을 이루지 못할 때는 옆에서 친구가 되어 주기도 했지요. 농부와 꼬마 광대는 함께 소젖도 짜고, 농사일도 하면서 점점 한 가족이 되어 갔습니다.

어느날 둘이서 피크닉을 갔을 때, 저 멀리서 달려 오는 서커스단 기차를 발견했습니다. 꼬마 광대는 농부의 손을 끌고서 기찻길로 달려갔지요. 그리고 마침내 꼬마 광대는 서커스단 가족들과 재회하게 되었습니다.꼬마 광대와 서커스단 기차가 떠나가고, 다시 혼자 남게 된 농부... 그러나 농부의 옆에는 전혀 예상치 못했던 새 식구가 그를 따라가네요...

감상할만한 가치가 있는 멋진 그림책입니다.

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What is 하드커버? 양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다. 판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.

하드커버책입니다.






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Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 1442497440
ISBN-13: 978-1442497443
책 크기: 26.7 cm x 21.5 cm



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Book Description
Whimsical and touching images tell the story of an unexpected friendship and the revelations it inspires in this moving, wordless picture book from two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee.

A baby clown is separated from his family when he accidentally bounces off their circus train and lands in a lonely farmer’s vast, empty field. The farmer reluctantly rescues the little clown, and over the course of one day together, the two of them make some surprising discoveries about themselves—and about life!

Sweet, funny, and moving, this wordless picture book from a master of the form and the creator of The Boss Baby speaks volumes and will delight story lovers of all ages. - See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Farmer-and-the-Clown/Marla-Frazee/9781442497443#sthash.iFO2gAi7.dpuf



School Library Journal *Starred Review*
Frazee's controlled palette of subdued golds, browns, and grays offers a fitting backdrop for the hard-working farmer foregrounded in this wordless tale. Bent over his wheat, he misses the drama above as sweeping cloud formations bleed off the page. A swiftly moving circus train on the horizon introduces color and an unexpected visitor, when a bump on the tracks ejects a young clown. Exuberance meets quiet responsibility as the whirlwind in a red one-piece, the small clown, embraces the legs of the old man. Their similar silhouettes invite comparison, while their hats (one black and wide-brimmed, the other red and conical) suggest contrast. Hand in hand, they enter the farmhouse, where softly textured gouache and black pencil scenes in panels of varying shapes and sizes depict shared meals and ablutions, a protective night watch, and unanticipated antics as rust-colored long johns seem to conjure the farmer's playfulness. The bond, conveyed visually through mirrored motions, continues to develop until the train returns. Readers will wonder how to feel in the penultimate scene until they notice a clown with a black hat waving from the caboose, and the final page contains another surprise. This is a tender look at light and shadow, the joy and comfort in companionship, the lift that laughter provides, and the friendship possible among generations (and species). The poignant relationship calls to mind the quiet potency of scenes in Raymond Briggs's The Snowman (Random, 1978) and Sarah Stewart's The Gardener (Farrar, 2007). Lovely.


Kirkus Reviews *Starred Review*
A solitary farmer on an empty plain receives the most unlikely visitor. A tall, scowling farmer labors with a pitchfork on an endless brown field. In the distance, surprisingly, a steam train crosses the horizon. As the train chugs off the edge of the spread, a jolt propels something off the caboose. The startled farmer sets out in that direction. He finds a small clown, wearing white makeup, a red-and-yellow costume and a broad smile. The clown deftly pantomimes having fallen off the train - action and emotion shine wordlessly - and the farmer takes him home. Silently they stare at each other, eat and wash their faces. Without makeup, the child-clown's smile disappears; is he sad to lose that connection to his home-train, or had the smile been made of makeup all along? With growing tenderness, the farmer watches over his sleeping guest and, come morning, hops and dances to cheer him up. They juggle eggs and share real farmwork until the circus train returns along the distant tracks. Its shape and primary colors make it look like a toy, especially against the soft, textured grays and browns of the farm, skies and earth. Using gouache and black pencil, Frazee - a virtuoso of mood and line - takes the surly farmer through bafflement, contemplativeness and true affection.The beauty of an unexpected visit, done beautifully.



Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
"Frazee (Boot & Shoe) crafts an affecting wordless narrative about a solitary man and his unexpected visitor...Frazee expertly paces the story in sequential panels, implying the grandfatherly man's growing tenderness for the lost child. The circus train's return feels bittersweet until readers observe that the farmer will not be alone for long. A gorgeously executed account of the power of companionship and compassion. "



The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books *Starred Review*
...Frazee imbues her simple story with the immediacy and pathos of a short silent film, and both the clown kid and the old farmer are dramatic body actors: the kid’s overemoting and excitedly flapping limbs make him the fizzy center of most spreads, and his disconsolate drooping is as sad as a puppy whimper. The pencil and gouache landscapes draw on soft, smoky grays and yellows and sometimes grayish yellows, giving the wide-open plains a period, possibly Depression-era feel that adds atmosphere and enhances the importance of the warmth between the two protagonists. Audiences, especially those cuddled in willing adult laps, will enjoy filling in the gaps of this story brimming with both pathos and comfort - and those viewers worried about the newly bereft farmer will appreciate the last page, where a circus monkey stealthily follows the man back home to start a new story.



New York Times Book Review
“The book opens in a subdued landscape with the grim farmer, whose displeasure is evident when he’s obliged to rescue the young clown thrown from a passing circus train. At first, the farmer and the clown seem in stark contrast. The young clown is dressed in a red one-piece, with a relentlessly cheerful, painted smile, while the old, bent-over farmer has stark black overalls and an unchanging, glum face. But when it is time to wash up, the farmer sheds his black and white clothes and reveals a red one-piece of his own. The clown’s painted smile is wiped off, revealing that the child’s face is actually sorrowful. The emotional resonance of that single mirroring scene is extraordinary. In fact the entire book, with Frazee’s perfect pacing of images and use of negative space, light and shadow is true poetry.”




Horn Book *Starred Review*
Appearances can be deceiving in this superb wordless book from two-time Caldecott Honor recipient Frazee...Using only pictures, Frazee’s book - both spare and astonishingly rich - offers a riveting narrative, characters to care deeply about, and an impressive range of emotion.