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Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine de Gloria Whelan

Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine

Autor Gloria Whelan Ilustrat de Nancy Carpenter
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2015 – vârsta până la 8 ani

Considerăm că Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine este o poartă fermecătoare către istorie, adaptată perfect pentru cei mai mici cititori. Încă de la prima atingere, se remarcă rezistența fizică a volumului: fiind o ediție cartonată, cu pagini groase și copertă „soft touch”, este ideală pentru a fi mânuită de mâini mici, dornice să exploreze. Vizual, ilustrațiile digitale semnate de Nancy Carpenter reușesc să surprindă amuzamentul unei situații istorice reale, transformând o lecție de istorie într-o aventură ludică.

Premisa este pe cât de neobișnuită, pe atât de educativă: Regina Victoria adoră marea, însă eticheta epocii îi interzice să fie văzută în costum de baie. Subliniem modul delicat și plin de umor în care Gloria Whelan descrie ingeniozitatea Prințului Albert, care inventează o „mașinărie” specială pentru a-i permite soției sale să se bucure de valuri fără a-și compromite demnitatea regală. Această abordare umanizează o figură istorică adesea percepută ca fiind austeră, oferind copiilor o perspectivă caldă asupra vieții de familie de la curtea britanică.

Părinții care au parcurs împreună cu copiii lor In the Days of Queen Victoria de Eva March Tappan vor aprecia și această lucrare pentru tonul mult mai accesibil și pentru accentul pus pe o singură anecdotă memorabilă, care rămâne întipărită în mintea celor mici. Spre deosebire de romanele mai complexe ale autoarei, precum The Listeners sau Waiting for the Owl's Call, care explorează teme sociale profunde și sacrificiul, Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine păstrează o notă veselă și optimistă, fiind o introducere perfectă în universul literar al Gloriei Whelan. Includerea unei fotografii cu dispozitivul real la finalul cărții ancorează povestea în realitate, stimulând curiozitatea istorică a micilor exploratori.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781416927532
ISBN-10: 1416927530
Pagini: 40
Ilustrații: f-c (digital) (jkt: soft touch)
Dimensiuni: 279 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: A Paula Wiseman Book/Beach Lane Books
Colecția A Paula Wiseman Book/Beach Lane Books

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să le prezinte copiilor (vârsta 4-8 ani) figuri istorice într-o manieră amuzantă și caldă. Este un instrument excelent pentru a discuta despre invenții, despre cum s-au schimbat obiceiurile sociale de-a lungul timpului și despre importanța sprijinului în familie. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o poveste memorabilă, ci și o primă lecție de istorie veritabilă, susținută de dovezi fotografice.

Despre autor

Gloria Whelan este o autoare de succes, recunoscută internațional pentru capacitatea sa de a aduce istoria la viață prin detalii umane profunde. Laureată a National Book Award pentru Homeless Bird, Whelan și-a construit o carieră solidă scriind despre culturi diverse și momente istorice de răscruce, de la Rusia imperială în Angel on the Square până la Argentina dictatorială în The Disappeared. Locuind în pădurile din Michigan, ea continuă să creeze povești care educă și inspiră, transformând cercetarea istorică riguroasă în literatură accesibilă pentru toate vârstele.

Notă biografică

Gloria Whelan is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many books for children and young adults. She won the National Book Award for young people’s literature for her novel Homeless Bird. A versatile author of historical and contemporary fiction for children and young adults, as well as short stories and poetry for adults, Whelan is, according to Liz Rosenberg in the Chicago Tribune, “an accomplished, graceful, and intelligent writer.” She lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and you can visit her at GloriaWhelan.com.

Nancy Carpenter is the acclaimed illustrator of Thomas Jefferson and the Mammoth Hunt, Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine, Fannie in the Kitchen, and Loud Emily, among other books. Her works have garnered many honors, including two Christopher Awards and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at NancyCarpenter.website.

Recenzii

Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine by Gloria Whelan; illus. by Nancy Carpenter How could Queen Victoria get into the sea on a hot day? Modesty decreed that she mustn’t be seen in her bathing costume. It’s Prince Albert to the rescue with a queen-sized bathing machine—large enough to fit the queen and her lady-in-waiting, and with wheels to roll it into the sea, where the waters would conceal Her Majesty. This entertaining story nicely encapsulates a curious bit of social history, though its glimpse of the royal family is as much fantastical as realistic, with a jaunty tall-tale tone governing a rhymed text (delighted with his creation, Prince Albert crows, “Let me tell you, my dear, what I propose. / You enter the back door wearing all of your clothes. / Off comes your dress, off come your rings, / off come all those unmentionable things”). Carpenter ably limns eight or so children in lively attendance, riding globes or peering through telescopes while Albert studies catapults or “old wars both Spartan and Punic.” The stifling frills and furbelows of Victorian dress; the loving couple’s delight in each other; and jacket art of the queen frolicking underwater in her voluminous black swimming costume, a minnow in her crown—Carpenter renders each in comical detail. A concluding note features a present-day photo of the commodious vehicle. A bibliography of Victoriana for various ages is appended.
* Queen Victoria is ready to break free from the constraints of life at the top (including literal ones, like corsets) and take a swim in the ocean. But that would never do given the mores of the era named after her—until her beloved husband Albert hits on a solution: a covered wooden cart with an undressing room that can be rolled into the sea, allowing the swimmer to discreetly enter the water. “No one will get so much as a peep,” Albert assures her, “except for the creatures down in the deep.” Whelan’s (Homeless Bird) rhyming bounds along with a crackle worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan, and Carpenter’s (Big Bear’s Big Boat) digital drawings are sublime. Her portrait of a loving marriage (which includes a scene of the Queen and Her Consort canoodling—in their nightgowns!) is every bit as wonderful as the busier scenes in which Albert (with assists from the couple’s many children) devises his contraption. But the finest image is the penultimate, which finds an ecstatic Victoria gliding through the lapis water in her swimming costume. Ages 5–8. (Apr.)
* QUEEN VICTORIA'S BATHING MACHINE The Victorian era is often caricatured as a time of excessive modesty, and this buoyant, rhyming picture book highlights a royal example with affection and good humor. Queen Victoria longs for a summer swim, but even when she’s vacationing at her informal residence on the Isle of Wight, decorum prevents her from traipsing down to the beach in her bathing suit—it would expose her queenly knees! Her doting husband, Prince Albert, invents a “bathing machine,” a caravan of sorts in which his wife can change out of her corset and petticoats in privacy and be wheeled straight into the water: “You climb down the steps in perfect repose, / into the ocean right up to your nose. / No one will get so much as a peep, / except for the creatures down in the deep.” Jaunty Seuss-ian rhymes (most effective when read aloud with an English accent) tell the amusing true-life story, and gleeful pen-and-watercolor illustrations of the royal family—including nine busy children—spill into lively double-page spreads. In one Monty Python–esque scene, Queen Victoria is unceremoniously flipped into the Atlantic via catapult, one of her husband’s earlier queen-transportation solutions. The book’s crown jewel? The underwater queen blissfully blowing bubbles with the fish. A funny and intimate behind-the-scenes look at royal family life by the National Book Award–winning Whelan (Homeless Bird, 2000). (author’s note, photo of actual bathing machine, bibliography, websites) (Picture book. 4-8)
In delightful rhyming prose, Whelan brings history to life recounting an amusing anecdote of Queen Victoria and her bathing machine (currently on display at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight). One hot summer day, the British queen longs to take a refreshing dip in the sea, but her lady-in-waiting is scandalized. “It would be a disgrace/to see more of the queen than her hands and her face.” Victoria’s devoted husband, Albert, gives all his genius to the problem, promising to come up with a way to transport her unseen from the beach to the water. He discards his first idea involving a catapult, but inspiration strikes in the middle of the night. “Just after midnight/Albert sprang from the bed./A brilliant idea/had come to his head.” He starts working on his invention the next morning, constructing a portable dressing room on wheels. Impressed and excited, Victoria dons her bathing suit inside the clever contraption and the bathing machine is then rolled into the sea, whereupon she dives right into the surf and indulges in a glorious swim. The digital artwork deftly portrays the loving relationship shared by Victoria and Albert. Comical details and the inclusion of the royal couple’s nine mischievous children in many of the scenes add to the fun. For a royal day out at the library, pair this outstanding title with Celeste Davidson Mannis’s The Queen’s Progress (Viking, 2003).
* Poor Queen Victoria gazes longingly at the sea from her balcony while being tightened into a sweaty corset and petticoats at the start of this lilting picture book from the author of Small Acts of Amazing Courage (2011). It would be indecent, after all, “to see more of the queen than her hands and her face,” but taking a dip in her full regalia would mean a quick trip to the seafloor. How can the queen enjoy a summer swim while still retaining her royal modesty? After abandoning his idea of a catapult to fling Her Majesty into the ocean, industrious Prince Albert devises a cart to be wheeled into the surf, so Victoria can change into her bathing costume and step into the water hidden from nosy onlookers. Carpenter’s jaunty illustrations, digitally rendered line drawings with colorful washes, depict the hot, uncomfortable queen surrounded by her beloved, rambunctious gaggle of children, who all pitch in to help build Albert’s invention. Based on Prince Albert’s real invention (a photo of the bathing machine and a brief biography of Queen Victoria is appended), this swingy, silly story in rhyming couplets offers a cheery glimpse into the life of a queen and a charming lesson on how necessity is the mother of invention. The informative author’s note and bibliography lead readers on to more.

Descriere

Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can't quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing her swimming suit. (Because, of course, such a sight would compromise her regal dignity.) Fortunately for the water-loving monarch, it's Prince Albert to the rescue with an invention fit for a queen!

This quirky tale about the longest reigning monarch in British history is as fun as it is authentic, and the book includes a picture of the actual bathing machine Prince Albert created.