Strictly No Elephants: The Pet Club Series
Autor Lisa Mantchev Ilustrat de Taeeun Yooen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 ian 2016 – vârsta până la 8 ani
Ce te faci când ai un animal de companie absolut adorabil, dar care nu se încadrează în standardele stricte ale unui club exclusivist? Descoperim aici o situație pe cât de absurdă, pe atât de înduioșătoare: un băiețel al cărui prieten cel mai bun este un elefant minuscul se lovește de semnul „Strictly No Elephants”. Este un punct de plecare plin de umor, dar care ascunde o lecție profundă despre barierele pe care le ridicăm uneori fără motiv. Considerăm că forța acestui album ilustrat constă în felul în care transformă dezamăgirea excluderii într-o oportunitate de a crea ceva mult mai bun: un spațiu unde toată lumea este binevenită, indiferent de formă sau mărime.
Subliniem calitatea artistică deosebită a volumului; ilustrațiile realizate de Taeeun Yoo prin tehnica linogravurii oferă o textură caldă și o paletă cromatică blândă, care invită la calm. Ca și I Just Like You, această poveste reușește să educe și să promoveze toleranța fără a fi didactică sau moralizatoare. Dacă în The Trouble with Giraffes explorăm dificultățile logistice ale unei prietenii neobișnuite, aici Lisa Mantchev se concentrează pe curajul de a merge mai departe și de a găsi aliați printre cei care, la rândul lor, se simt diferiți. Ritmul este așezat, ideal pentru lectura de seară, oferind părinților ocazia de a discuta cu cei mici despre ce înseamnă să fii un prieten adevărat și cum putem face lumea un loc mai primitor.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1481416472
Pagini: 32
Ilustrații: f-c (uncoated stock) digital
Dimensiuni: 229 x 254 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: A Paula Wiseman Book/Beach Lane Books
Colecția A Paula Wiseman Book/Beach Lane Books
Seria The Pet Club Series
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte părinților cu copii între 3 și 7 ani care doresc să cultive empatia și incluziunea. Este un instrument vizual superb care îi învață pe cei mici că a fi „altfel” nu este un obstacol, ci un motiv pentru a construi comunități mai deschise. Cititorul câștigă o poveste caldă despre solidaritate, însoțită de ilustrații premiate care rămân întipărite în memorie.
Despre autor
Lisa Mantchev este o autoare versatilă, cunoscută pentru seria „Theatre Illuminata” și pentru contribuțiile sale remarcabile în literatura pentru copii prin seria The Pet Club Series. A studiat arta dramatică la University of California, Irvine, o experiență care se reflectă în expresivitatea personajelor sale. În prezent, locuiește în Washington, pe peninsula Olympic, unde își împarte timpul între scris, explorarea plajelor și activități creative alături de familie. Stilul său se remarcă prin sensibilitate și o capacitate rară de a aborda teme sociale complexe pe înțelesul preșcolarilor.
Descriere scurtă
“Sweet and affirming.” Kirkus Reviews
“With a gentle message of inclusion and helping others, this title reaches beyond a mere friendship story.”School Library Journal
“Heartening.”Booklist
In this bestselling and internationally beloved picture book, the local Pet Club won’t admit a boy’s tiny pet elephant, so he finds a solution—one that involves all kinds of unusual animals.
Today is Pet Club day. There will be cats and dogs and fish, but strictly no elephantsare allowed. The Pet Club doesn't understand that pets come in all shapes and sizes, just like friends. Now it is time for a boy and his tiny pet elephant to show them what it means to be a true friend.
Strictly No Elephants has been sold around the world and is heralded as a pitch-perfect book about inclusion. Imaginative and lyrical, this sweet story captures the magic of friendship and the joy of having a pet.
Notă biografică
Taeeun Yoo has twice received the prestigious New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award. She has illustrated many books, including Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev, which has been published in nineteen countries. The New York Times called it a “sunny, smart, tongue-in-cheek tale.” She is also the illustrator of Kitten and the Night Watchman by John Sullivan, which received five starred reviews and was named a best book of the year by many publications. Her other books include So Many Days and Only a Witch Can Fly, both by Alison McGhee, and Round by Joyce Sidman. Taeeun was also the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Society of Illustrators’ Founders Award. She lives in South Korea with her family.
Recenzii
The first-person narrative has a quiet, contemplative feel: “The trouble with having a tiny elephant for a pet is that you never quite fit in. / No one else has an elephant.” His pet is shy of sidewalk cracks: “I always go back and help him over. That’s what friends do: lift each other over the cracks.” Embodying dejection after the two turn from that large, titular sign on the door, a double-page spread—a Photoshop-augmented linoleum block print—depicts a dark teal cityscape slashed with raindrops and bobbing with black umbrellas. The Caucasian boy, his pet (in matching red scarves), and a little African-American girl in cornrows and a red-and-orange striped dress are the bright spots in this poignant tableau. Turns out that this girl—a pet skunk curled on her lap—has been turned away too. “He doesn’t stink,” she says. “No, he doesn’t,” concurs the boy and then suggests, “What if we start our own club?” Observant children will spot a porcupine, penguin, and giraffe peering from brownstone windows along the way; they and their children join others with equally exotic pets. Yoo’s concluding scenes depict a treehouse occupation (its restrictive message changed to “ALL ARE WELCOME”) and multiethnic, multispecies harmony.
Sweet and affirming.
Having a tiny elephant for a pet sounds idyllic, but a boy discovers that the local Pet Club doesn’t allow them; a stern girl points at a “Strictly No Elephants” sign. Heading home in the rain, the boy and his elephant spot a girl with her skunk. “They don’t want us to play with them either,” she says. Joined by other owners of unexpected pets—giraffes, armadillos, even a small narwhal in a bowl—they make their own club with its own sign: “All Are Welcome.” In her first picture book, Mantchev (Ticker) examines true friendship, sprinkling observations about the behavior of boy and elephant throughout (“He doesn’t like the cracks in the sidewalk much. I always go back and help him over”) and punctuating them with the refrain, “Because that’s what friends do.” Yoo’s (Hands Say Love) linoleum block prints of brick buildings and quiet sidewalks have the softness and warmth of a favorite blanket. It’s a message book about exclusion with an oh-so-gentle lead-in for discussion.
It’s Pet Club Day, and the sign on the door at #17 clearly states, “Strictly NO Elephants.” Current members treasure their birds, fish, cats, and dogs, but a young boy taking a walk with his tiny elephant, sharing an umbrella in a cool fall rain, sees no welcome for his friend, so he simply gives his usual support. “That’s what friends do—lift each other over the cracks…brave the scary things for you.” The boy and his elephant meet a girl with a skunk, who were also excluded from the Pet Club meeting, and decide to start a club of their own, one in which all are welcome. Friends “never leave anyone behind.” Illustrations emphasize the warmth of this message with Photoshop, block prints, and pencil in color spreads alternated with smaller vignettes highlighting the expressions of the children and their pets. VERDICT With a gentle message of inclusion and helping others, this title reaches beyond a mere friendship story. A solid general purchase for libraries and classrooms.
“The trouble with having a tiny elephant for a pet is that you never quite fit in,” says a little boy with a tiny pet elephant. The Pet Club won’t let him in, and an angry sign—“Strictly No Elephants”—explains why. Forlorn, the boy and little elephant stumble on, the boy’s warm-toned shirt popping against the background of people in dark blues, blacks, and teal. They find another outcast, a little girl with a skunk, and they decide to start their own club. Soon, owners with other unusual pets join them: a girl with a giraffe, a boy with a hedgehog, even a kid with a tiny narwhal in a glass bowl! Eagle-eyed little ones will notice new friends before they make their way to the pet parade. Though the story is slight, the clear message of inclusion is a good one, and the cheerful, lightly mottled block-print illustrations, with bright outlines and in a rich palette, exude lively motion among the children and their pets. Heartening, particularly for kids who often feel left out.
A sunny, smart, tongue-in-cheek tale by Lisa Mantchev. . . . How nice . . . to imagine such a peacable kingdom in our midst, especially as depicted in Taeeun Yoo's intimate, warmly rounded and colored mixed-media illustrations--a richly textured meld of drawing and linocut art finished off in the Photoshop blender.