Good Night, Gorilla
Autor Peggy Rathmannen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 apr 1994 – vârsta până la 5 ani
Ne-a atras atenția, încă de la prima răsfoire, modul ingenios în care Good Night, Gorilla transformă o simplă rutină de culcare într-o aventură vizuală plină de umor. Deși textul este extrem de economic, forța acestei cărți rezidă în detaliile ilustrațiilor semnate de Peggy Rathmann. Observăm cum micul goriloi, cu o figură deopotrivă inocentă și șgalnică, reușește să subtilizeze cheile îngrijitorului de la grădina zoologică, transformând turul de noapte al acestuia într-o paradă secretă a animalelor care refuză să meargă la somn. Merită menționat că această operă, distinsă cu medalia Caldecott, se bazează pe capacitatea micilor cititori de a „citi” imaginile. Tonul este unul liniștitor, în ciuda premisei jucăușe, iar paleta cromatică vibrantă reușește să creeze o atmosferă caldă, de siguranță. Pe același raft cu Good Night Like This, cartea se adresează copiilor de 2-5 ani care caută povești interactive, unde ei pot fi complicii personajului principal, observând detalii pe care adultul din poveste pare să le ignore total. În contextul operei autoarei, Good Night, Gorilla păstrează sensibilitatea și atenția față de universul copilăriei regăsite în Ruby the Copycat, dar alege o cale mult mai minimalistă. Dacă în alte lucrări Peggy Rathmann explorează nevoia de apartenență sau aventura explorării, aici se concentrează pe ritualul somnului, oferind o experiență de lectură circulară și reconfortantă. Este o lectură care nu obosește, ci invită la observație și la un ultim zâmbet înainte de stingerea luminii.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0399224459
Pagini: 40
Dimensiuni: 237 x 282 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Penguin Young Readers Group
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să dezvolte spiritul de observație al celor mici. Fiind aproape lipsită de text, Good Night, Gorilla permite copilului să preia rolul de povestitor, descriind singur peripețiile gorilei. Este un instrument excelent pentru a transforma ora de culcare într-un moment de conexiune veselă, oferind micuților satisfacția de a descoperi micile farse vizuale ascunse în fiecare pagină.
Despre autor
Peggy Rathmann este o scriitoare și ilustratoare americană de renume, celebrată pentru capacitatea sa de a comunica emoții complexe prin imagini simple și expresive. Succesul său major a venit odată cu Good Night, Gorilla, care a devenit un clasic modern al literaturii pentru copii, însă bibliografia sa include și alte titluri apreciate precum Ruby the Copycat. Recunoscută cu medalia Caldecott, Rathmann s-a specializat în crearea de povești care respectă inteligența vizuală a copiilor, personajele sale fiind adesea animale cu trăsături umane foarte recognoscibile, care navighează situații pline de umor și căldură.
Descriere scurtă
Sneak along behind the zookeeper's back and see who gets the last laugh in this rioutous good-night romp.
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Comentariile autorului
Ms. Rathmann graduated from Mounds View High School in New Brighton, Minnesota, then attended colleges everywhere, changing her major repeatedly. She eventually earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota.
"I wanted to teach sign language to gorillas, but after taking a class in signing, I realized what I'd rather do was draw pictures of gorillas."
Ms. Rathmann studied commercial art at the American Academy in Chicago, fine art at the Atelier Lack in Minneapolis, and children's-book writing and illustration at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles.
"I spent the first three weeks of my writing class at Otis Parsons filching characters from my classmates' stories. Finally, the teacher convinced me that even a beginning writer can create an original character if the character is driven by the writer's most secret weirdness. Eureka! A little girl with a passion for plagiarism! I didn't want anyone to know it was me, so I made the character look like my sister."
The resulting book, Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the "Most Promising New Author" distinction in Publishers Weekly's 1991 annual Cuffie Awards. In 1992 she illustrated Bootsie Barker Bites for Barbara Bottner, her teacher at Otis Parsons.
A homework assignment produced an almost wordless story, Good Night, Gorilla, inspired by a childhood memory.
"When I was little, the highlight of the summer was running barefoot through the grass, in the dark, screaming. We played kick-the-can, and three-times-around-the-house, and sometimes we just stood staring into other people's picture windows, wondering what it would be like to go home to someone else's house."
That story, however, was only nineteen pages long, and everyone agreed that the ending was a dud. Two years and ten endings later, Good Night, Gorilla was published and recognized as an ALA Notable Children's Book for 1994.
The recipient of the 1996 Caldecott Medal, Officer Buckle and Gloria, is the story of a school safety officer upstaged by his canine partner.
"We have a videotape of my mother chatting in the dining room while, unnoticed by her or the cameraman, the dog is licking every poached egg on the buffet. The next scene shows the whole family at the breakfast table, complimenting my mother on the delicious poached eggs. The dog, of course, is pretending not to know what a poached egg is. The first time we watched that tape we were so shocked, we couldn't stop laughing. I suspect that videotape had a big influence on my choice of subject matter."
Ms. Rathmann lives and works in San Francisco, in an apartment she shares with her husband, John Wick, and a very funny bunch of ants.
copyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.
Caldecott-medalist Peggy Rathmann was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in the suburbs with two brothers and two sisters.
"In the summer we lolled in plastic wading pools guzzling Kool-Aid. In the winter we sculpted giant snow animals. It was a good life."
Ms. Rathmann graduated from Mounds View High School in New Brighton, Minnesota, then attended colleges everywhere, changing her major repeatedly. She eventually earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota.
"I wanted to teach sign language to gorillas, but after taking a class in signing, I realized what I'd rather do was draw pictures of gorillas."
Ms. Rathmann studied commercial art at the American Academy in Chicago, fine art at the Atelier Lack in Minneapolis, and children's-book writing and illustration at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles.
"I spent the first three weeks of my writing class at Otis Parsons filching characters from my classmates' stories. Finally, the teacher convinced me that even a beginning writer can create an original character if the character is driven by the writer's most secret weirdness. Eureka! A little girl with a passion for plagiarism! I didn't want anyone to know it was me, so I made the character look like my sister."
The resulting book, Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the "Most Promising New Author" distinction in Publishers Weekly's 1991 annual Cuffie Awards. In 1992 she illustrated Bootsie Barker Bites for Barbara Bottner, her teacher at Otis Parsons.
A homework assignment produced an almost wordless story, Good Night, Gorilla, inspired by a childhood memory.
"When I was little, the highlight of the summer was running barefoot through the grass, in the dark, screaming. We played kick-the-can, and three-times-around-the-house, and sometimes we just stood staring into other people's picture windows, wondering what it would be like to go home to someone else's house."
That story, however, was only nineteen pages long, and everyone agreed that the ending was a dud. Two years and ten endings later, Good Night, Gorilla was published and recognized as an ALA Notable Children's Book for 1994.
The recipient of the 1996 Caldecott Medal, Officer Buckle and Gloria, is the story of a school safety officer upstaged by his canine partner.
"We have a videotape of my mother chatting in the dining room while, unnoticed by her or the cameraman, the dog is licking every poached egg on the buffet. The next scene shows the whole family at the breakfast table, complimenting my mother on the delicious poached eggs. The dog, of course, is pretending not to know what a poached egg is. The first time we watched that tape we were so shocked, we couldn't stop laughing. I suspect that videotape had a big influence on my choice of subject matter."
Ms. Rathmann lives and works in San Francisco, in an apartment she shares with her husband, John Wick, and a very funny bunch of ants.
copyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.