Four in All
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1886910162 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A book for collectors I collect picture books. This one is different from all the others I have. The text is a poem consisting of seven pairs of lines. Each line has four words: Fork Plate Knife Spoon -- Morning Evening Midnight Moon. The pictures tell a story of their own, they do no. "Enchanting story" according to A Customer. This book is remarkable. The poem uses simple words in fun rhythms while the story is told through the beautiful illustrations. It's a tale of a young girl setting off on an adventure through the world - she crosses a bridge, builds a house, meets a bear, crosses . A Best Book Just a note: this book appears on School Library Journal's Best Books of 2001 list (SLJ December 2001).
All this understatement, however, gives life to the ambitiousness of their work. The child's journey is archetypal, flowing freely into fantasy (e.g., the quartet of "bear bird fish snake" joins the girl at the table for "fork plate knife spoon") and back into the safety of home (in the end, the girl rushes back toward her house, where her family waits outside: "mother father son daughter"). The text, a tightly edited, rhyming sequence of four-noun lines, conjures a child's world and stresses its stability: "eyes ears nose mouth/ east west north south/ oats wheat corn rye/ sun moon stars sky." The art, like the text
The poet--Nina Payne--conjures the world in all its symmetry and beauty, using only fifty-six common nouns that every child knows. A child's epic adventure is depicted brilliantly in this elegant and visually stunning collaboration between a mother and son. The poet's and artist's visions come together seamlessly, enhancing each, transcending both to create a perfect picture book.. The artist--Adam Payne---tells the story of a child's discovery of creation in exquisite cut-paper collage