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[ 책 소개 ]
* Newbery Medal 2008
* ALA (American Library Association) Notable Children's Books
* School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
* Parents' Choice Awards Gold Award
* New York Public Library Children's Books: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
* Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
* NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts
* Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices List
* Cybils Awards Shortlist
* Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
* Chicago Public Library Best Books for Children and Teens
* Kirkus Reviews Editors' Choice
* Booklist Editors' Choice
* Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Bulletin Blue Ribbons
* Junior Library Guild Selection
이 책은 도서관 사서인 작가가 아이들을 위해 쓴 21편의 짧은 희곡으로 구성되어 있습니다. 13세기 중세 영국을 배경으로 서로 다른 신분을 지니고 다양한 일을 하는 어린이들을 차례로 등장시켜, 그 시대에 치열한 삶을 살아갔던 일반 사람들의 목소리를 들려 줍니다. 막이 오르면 19편의 독백극과 2편의 대화극이 펼쳐지며, 각 편마다 다른 주인공들이 등장합니다. 작가는 학급 아이들 모두 주인공이 되어 연극을 할 수 있도록 하기 위해 이 작품을 기획했다고 합니다.
이 작품은 중세를 소개하는 아주 특별한 논픽션이기도 하지만, 희곡이라는 장치를 사용함으로써 문학으로서의 독자적인 위치를 갖습니다. 이 작품에 등장하는 주인공들은 중세 시대를 그대로 재현하고 있지만, 한편으로는 모두가 아이들만의 보편적인 천진함을 보여 주고 있습니다. 일하는 어린이인 쟁기소년 윌, 농노의 딸 모그, 방앗간 아들 오토, 상류층 아이들인 기사의 아들 사이먼, 영주의 딸 이소벨, 의사의 아들 토머스, 그리고 도망자 신세인 피스크 등 다양한 아이들이 현재를 사는 우리와 다름없이 불만 많고, 짝사랑에 마음 졸이고, 편견에 맞서 싸우고, 기대에 부응하기 위해 고된 하루를 보내는 등장인물들이 되면, 금세 공감대가 형성되는 것이 이 작품의 큰 매력이자 역사를 다루는 다른 작품들과의 뚜렷한 차이점입니다...
Robert Byrd의 펜과 물감을 이용한 세밀화 그림들이 우리에게는 낮선 중세시대의 모습을 좀 더 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 도움을 줍니다.
국내에서는 "존경하는 신사 숙녀 여러분!"이라는 제목으로 번역본이 출간되었습니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 96 pages
ISBN-10: 0763650943
ISBN-13: 978-0763650940
책 크기: 23 ccm x 15.3 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters. Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons - in these pages, readers will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and the peasant’s daughter, Mogg, who gets a clever lesson in how to save a cow from a greedy landlord. There’s also mud-slinging Barbary (and her noble victim); Jack, the compassionate half-wit; Alice, the singing shepherdess; and many more. With a deep appreciation for the period and a grand affection for both characters and audience, Laura Amy Schlitz creates twenty-two riveting portraits and linguistic gems equally suited to silent reading or performance. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Robert Byrd - inspired by the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript, an illuminated poem from thirteenth-century Germany - this witty, historically accurate, and utterly human collection forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England.
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Schlitz (The Hero Schliemann ) wrote these 22 brief monologues to be performed by students at the school where she is a librarian; here, bolstered by lively asides and unobtrusive notes, and illuminated by Byrd's (Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer) stunningly atmospheric watercolors, they bring to life a prototypical English village in 1255. Adopting both prose and verse, the speakers, all young, range from the half-wit to the lord's daughter, who explains her privileged status as the will of God. The doctor's son shows off his skills ("Ordinary sores/ Will heal with comfrey, or the white of an egg,/ An eel skin takes the cramping from a leg"); a runaway villein (whose life belongs to the lord of his manor) hopes for freedom after a year and a day in the village, if only he can calculate the passage of time; an eel-catcher describes her rough infancy: her "starving poor [father] took me up to drown in a bucket of water." (He relents at the sight of her "wee fingers" grasping at the sides of the bucket.) Byrd, basing his work on a 13th-century German manuscript, supplies the first page of each speaker's text with a tone-on-tone patterned border overset with a square miniature. Larger watercolors, some with more intricate borders, accompany explanatory text for added verve. The artist does not channel a medieval style; rather, he mutes his palette and angles some lines to hint at the period, but his use of cross-hatching and his mostly realistic renderings specifically welcome a contemporary readership.
From Booklist Starred Review
The author of A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006), Schlitz turns to a completely different kind of storytelling here. Using a series of interconnected monologues and dialogues featuring young people living in and around an English manor in 1255, she offers first-person character sketches that build upon each other to create a finer understanding of medieval life. The book was inspired by the necessity of creating a play suitable for a classroom where "no one wanted a small part." Each of the 23 characters (between 10 and 15 years old) has a distinct personality and a societal role revealed not by recitation of facts but by revelation of memories, intentions, and attitudes. Sometimes in prose and more often in one of several verse forms, the writing varies nicely from one entry to the next. Historical notes appear in the vertical margins, and some double-page spreads carry short essays on topics related to individual narratives, such as falconry, the Crusades, and Jews in medieval society. Although often the characters' specific concerns are very much of their time, their outlooks and emotional states will be familiar to young people today. Reminiscent of medieval art, Byrd's lively ink drawings, tinted with watercolors, are a handsome addition to this well-designed book. This unusually fine collection of related monologues and dialogues promises to be a rewarding choice for performance or for reading aloud in the classroom.
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