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확대 이미지 : 상세그림1
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확대 이미지 : 상세그림2
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[ 책 소개 ]
국내에도 10여종의 번역서가 출간되었으며, 케이트 그린어웨이상 2차례, 그리고 Hans Christian Andersen Award도 두차례나 수상한 영국을 대표하는 그림책 작가 마이클 포맨의 작품입니다.
미아는 안데스 산맥 아래쪽에 있는 가난한 마을에 사는 소녀입니다. 미아의 아빠는 낡은 트럭을 몰고 도시로 잡동사니를 팔러 다니는데, 어느날 길거리에서 발견한 작은 강아지를 데리고 왔습니다. 미아는 그 강아지 이름을 포코라고 지었지요. 포코는 미아를 무척 좋아했으며, 언제나 미아의 뒤를 졸졸 따라 다녔습니다.
그런데 어느 겨울날, 포코가 사라져 버렸습니다. 미아는 집에서 기르는 말 산초를 타고 하루 종일 포코를 찾으러 다녔습니다. 마을 곳곳을 찾아봤지만, 포코는 보이지 않았고, 결국 미아는 안데스산맥의 눈이 덮여있는 높은 산까지 올라가게 됩니다. 산에서도 포코는 보이지 않았고, 저녁이 되어서 집으로 돌아가려고 할 때, 눈밭에 피어있는 아름다운 꽃들을 발견하게 됩니다. 미아는 조심스럽게 꽃들을 몇송이 캐서 집으로 가져왔습니다. 그리고 다음날 미아는 가져온 꽃들을 집 주변의 공터에 심었습니다.
미아는 이 꽃을 일년간 정성스럽게 키웠으며, 가을이 되자 씨앗은 바람을 타고 온 마을로 퍼졌습니다. 그리고 다음해 봄이 되자 기적같은 일이 벌어졌습니다. 쓰레기로 덮여있던 가난한 마을 전체가 아름다운 꽃밭으로 변한 겁니다. 미아는 아빠와 함께 이 꽃들을 도시에서 팔기 시작했으며, 이 예쁜 꽃들은 큰 인기를 끌게 됩니다. 하지만 꽃들이 잘 팔릴수록 미아는 포코에 대한 생각이 깊어져 갔습니다. 미아와 포코는 다시 만날 수 있을까요?
튼튼한 하드커버책입니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Edition: Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0763630632
ISBN-13: 978-0763630638
책 크기: 26.6 cm x 22 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
From award-winning picture book artist Michael Foreman comes the uplifting tale of a girl whose search for a lost puppy leads to some wondrous wildflowers -- and a magical way to transform her barren village.
In a bleak little village in Chile, Papa comes home from his day of selling metal scraps with a wonderful surprise for his daughter, Mia. It's a puppy she names Poco, who follows the little girl everywhere -- until one day, as puppies will do, Poco wanders away. As Mia searches for her pup, she finds herself all alone at the top of the highest mountain, where she gathers a clump of snow-white flowers to plant by her home. Soon Mia's fragrant flowers have spread through the village and blanketed the once-ugly dump. Before long, she is selling her flowers in the city square, telling crowds of customers that "they come from the stars." But wherever the flowers are, Mia is always reminded of Poco. Is it possible the flowers may bring back her beloved dog after all?
Children's Literature
Mia's inspirational story is based on Foreman's experience in a poor village in Chile, where he met her when his bus broke down. Mia's father brings her a puppy from the city one day. When Paco disappears, Mia searches for him on horseback through the surrounding dump and on until she finds herself high in the mountains in the snow. On her way home, she discovers some beautiful flowers she feels are "from the stars." She carefully collects and plants them at home. By spring, their seeds have produced flowers covering the ugly dump. Mia decides to go to the city with her father and try to sell her flowers in the market. They sell so well that soon her father can dream of building a brick house to replace their shack. An even happier ending comes with Paco's return. The front endpapers depict the desolate browns of winter in the dump, while those in back show the flower-filled summertime. The pages in between combine fragments of action and visual information, perhaps as found in the artist's scrapbook or journal. The story's text is in print, while the notes for the sketches are as if hand-written. Foreman's pencil with touches of watercolor tells Mia's story effectively. Several double-page scenes add contextual details to the emotional content. The contrast between Mia's home and the scene in the city market in front of the cathedral is particularly impressive.
School Library Journal
Inspired by the people the author met during a visit to Chile, this story tells of Mia and her family, who make their home from the materials they scavenge from the village dump and their living by selling the scraps they collect there. When Mia goes on a long search for her dog, she finds herself high in the mountains where the air is clear, free of the "dark cloud that always fill[s] the valley" where she lives. There she discovers lovely white flowers and transplants them at home. When they grow and spread, she starts a flower business with her father in the city. The large-print text is illustrated with watercolor spreads, and the handwritten sketchbook entries are accompanied by drawings and watercolor vignettes. Mia and the other market vendors wear hats and ponchos typical of the region while her father wears jeans and a baseball cap. The predominance of browns and grays emphasizes the pollution and bleak environment in which the people live. However, though they have very few material goods, they go about their lives with verve, attend school, play soccer, and, above all, cherish the dream of one day having a home made of brick. This story, along with Dyanne DiSalvo's A Castle on Viola Street (HarperCollins, 2001), offers readers glimpses into the resilience of the human spirit.
Kirkus Reviews
Mixing small, intimate drawings captioned in pencil with larger-scale landscape watercolors, Foreman crafts a sketchy, touching original tale inspired by a family he met in a Chilean waste dump. Driving into the city each day with reclaimed junk to sell, Mia's father dreams of one day building a brick house to replace his family's shanty. That dream edges closer to reality when Mia, out searching for her lost puppy, brings home instead a clump of beautiful wildflowers. The flowers take so well to their new home that soon she and her father both are selling them full time in the city marketplace. Telling the story with an underlying tone of respect rather than outrage or pity, and expertly capturing the Andean setting and characters, Foreman will leave readers impressed by the resourcefulness of Mia and her community, and hoping along with them for a brighter future.
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