The House Without Windows
Autor Barbara Newhall Folletten Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iul 2023
Dorința de a evada din structurile rigide ale vieții cotidiene și nevoia de a regăsi o conexiune pură cu natura sunt teme universale, dar rareori sunt explorate cu atâta sinceritate ca în The House Without Windows. Scrisă de Barbara Newhall Follett la o vârstă la care majoritatea copiilor abia încep să își descopere vocea, această operă recuperată din literatura clasică este o odă adusă libertății absolute. Credem că forța acestui roman rezidă în perspectiva sa nealterată asupra lumii: personajul principal, Eepersip, nu fuge de acasă din rebeliune, ci dintr-o atracție irezistibilă față de mediul natural. Experiența lecturii este una senzorială, susținută de proza ritmată care descrie transformarea fetiței în timp ce explorează pajiștile, țărmul mării și crestele munților. Merită menționat că această ediție este îmbogățită de ilustrațiile realizate de Jackie Morris, ale cărei desene în tuș adaugă o dimensiune mistică și profundă textului. Copiii care au iubit Home of the Wild vor găsi aici aceeași temă a respectului față de sălbăticie și a înțelegerii faptului că natura nu ne aparține, ci noi îi aparținem ei, într-un context narativ mult mai amplu și mai filosofic. Deși este o lectură accesibilă, tonul este unul liric și contemplativ, oferind o alternativă la romanele de aventură rapide. Este o fabulă despre curajul de a fi diferit și despre prețul pe care societatea îl cere pentru conformitate. The House Without Windows reușește să capteze acel sentiment de uimire în fața lumii pe care doar ochii unui copil îl pot vedea atât de clar.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1927077451
Pagini: 180
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Soul Care Publishing
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să cultive în copiii lor (peste 9-10 ani) dragostea pentru natură și spiritul independent. Este un instrument excelent pentru a discuta despre libertate, fericire și ce înseamnă cu adevărat conceptul de „acasă”. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra lumii, văzută prin ochii unui copil-geniu al literaturii interbelice, totul într-un format vizual de excepție.
Despre autor
Barbara Newhall Follett a fost un copil minune al literaturii americane, născută într-o familie de scriitori în 1914. La vârsta de 12 ani, a publicat debutul său, The House Without Windows, care a devenit rapid un succes de critică și public. Fascinată de viața pe mare și de sălbăticie, a continuat să scrie despre explorări, publicând ulterior The Voyage of the Norman D.. Viața sa a oglindit destinul personajelor sale: în 1939, nemulțumită de limitările vieții domestice, a părăsit propria casă și a dispărut fără urmă, lăsând în urmă o operă marcată de o dragoste profundă pentru libertate.
Notă biografică
Barbara Newhall Follett was an American child prodigy novelist. Born in 1914, she published her first novel, The House Without Windows, aged twelve. One year later she published another, The Voyage of the Norman D., based on her own experiences sailing round Nova Scotia without her parents at thirteen years old. Barbara Newhall Follett disappeared shortly before Christmas 1939, leaving her home with $30 in her pocket, and was never seen again. The mystery of her disappearance has never been solved.
Jackie Morris (Illustrator, Introducer)
Jackie Morris has written or illustrated over seventy books, including the beloved children's classics Tell Me a Dragon and East of the Sun, West of the Moon and a volume of modern folklore for readers of all ages, Wild Folk,
co-created with Tamsin Abbott, as well as introducing and illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett's gem of wild literature, The House Without Windows. She is the internationally bestselling and award-winning co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year for The Lost Words.
Her artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and has been published in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art College.
Morris and Macfarlane's latest project, The Book of Birds, will be published in May 2026.
Recenzii
. . . Extraordinary. Deeply weird, beautiful & unsettling.
The House without Windows is miraculous - a fearless odyssey into a dreamtime of wildness and enchantment. Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times.
Astonishingly lyrical
Descriere scurtă
Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does not want to live locked up behind the walls of a house. So she runs away - first to the Meadow, then to the Sea, and finally to the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow their daughter, trying to bring her home safe, but Eepersip has other ideas...
Republished by Penguin with a new introduction and hand-inked illustrations by beloved artist Jackie Morris, The House Without Windows is a timeless fable about wildness, freedom and the redemptive power of the natural world.
'I can safely promise joy to any reader of The House Without Windows. Perfection' Eleanor Farjeon, winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Hans Christian Andersen Award
'Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times' Nick Drake
'A classic, as miraculous and awe-inspiring as the author' Xinran, author of The Good Women of China
Descriere
'An enchanting book. These pages simply quiver with the beauty, happiness and vigour of forests, seas and mountains . . . I can safely promise joy to any reader of it. Perfection' Eleanor Farjeon, Winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Hans Christian Andersen Award Discover this extraordinary lost classic of nature writing - a fable about wildness and the desire to escape - beautifully illustrated by beloved artist and The Lost Words creator Jackie Morris 'Miraculous - a fearless odyssey into a dreamtime of wildness and enchantment. Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times' Nick Drake Little Eepersip doesn't want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away to live in the wild - first in the Meadow, then by the Sea, and finally in the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow her at first, bringing her back home to 'safety' and locking her up in the stifling square of the house. But she slips away once more, following her wild heart out of the door and far away... Barbara Newhall Follett was just thirteen years old when she published The House Without Windows in 1927. The book went on to become a million-copy bestseller. Years later, as an adult herself, Barbara followed in the footsteps of her radical heroine - dissatisfied with the limitations of life as a respectable married woman, she walked out of her house one day and simply disappeared. Penguin are delighted to republish Barbara Newhall Follett's extraordinary feminist fable for the next generation of nature lovers and escapees to discover and cherish. Newly introduced by Jackie Morris, and filled with her beautifully inked artwork, The House Without Windows is an irresistible paean to the natural world and its transcendent effect on the human heart. 'A classic, as miraculous and awe-inspiring as the nine-year-old author. Jackie Morris portrays the artistic elegance of the eastern ink with the wisdom of the West' Xinran, author of The Good Women of China Praise for The Lost Words 'Breathtaking . . . Jackie Morris has created something that you could spend all day looking at' New Statesman 'Luminous' Sunday Times 'Sumptuous . . . A book combining meticulous wordcraft with exquisite illustrations deftly restores language describing the natural world to the children's lexicon...The Lost Words is a beautiful book and an important one' Observer