Warning: Do Not Open This Book!
Autor Adam Lehrhaupt Ilustrat de Matthew Forsytheen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 ian 2014
Ritmul acestei cărți este dictat de un dialog neașteptat între narator și micul cititor, o joacă de-a v-ați ascunselea verbală care mizează pe suspans și umor. Încă de la prima pagină, suntem întâmpinați de avertismente serioase care ne îndeamnă să punem volumul înapoi în raft. Această abordare ludică, bazată pe psihologia inversă, transformă lectura într-o experiență interactivă în care copiii devin complici la „dezastrul” care urmează să se dezlănțuie odată cu întoarcerea paginii.
Descoperim aici o lume plină de maimuțe năzdrăvane și aligatori, ilustrată cu o măiestrie aparte de Matthew Forsythe. Stilul său vizual, premiat cu Eisner, completează perfect textul minimalist al lui Adam Lehrhaupt, creând un contrast între avertismentele severe ale naratorului și haosul colorat din imagini. Părinții care au citit cu plăcere Please Don't Read This Book de Deanna Kizis vor aprecia și această carte pentru felul în care încurajează încălcarea „regulilor” într-un mediu sigur și amuzant, stimulând curiozitatea naturală a celor mici.
În contextul operei sale, acest titlu de debut a stabilit direcția creativă a lui Adam Lehrhaupt, pe care o regăsim și în Chicken in Space. Dacă în peripețiile găinușei Zoey accentul cade pe curaj și imaginație, în Warning: Do Not Open This Book! autorul explorează relația directă dintre cititor și obiectul fizic numit carte. Este o lucrare care nu doar spune o poveste, ci invită la acțiune, fiind recunoscută ca E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book pentru calitățile sale excepționale de a fi citită cu voce tare.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1471121186
Pagini: 32
Ilustrații: Full colur
Dimensiuni: 260 x 260 mm
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster Children's UK
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să transforme ora de lectură într-un moment de divertisment pur. Ideală pentru copii cu vârste între 3 și 6 ani, volumul ajută la dezvoltarea simțului umorului și a gândirii critice prin interacțiune. Cititorul câștigă o experiență memorabilă în care el este protagonistul care „provoacă” desfășurarea acțiunii, totul într-un format vizual de excepție.
Despre autor
Adam Lehrhaupt este un autor premiat, cunoscut pentru abordările sale neconvenționale în literatura pentru copii. Cu o experiență de viață diversă, de la spectacole pe Broadway până la munca într-o fermă comunală, Lehrhaupt își infuzează poveștile cu un entuziasm contagios. Locuiește lângă Philadelphia, unde își petrece timpul scriind și vizitând școli pentru a inspira noi generații de cititori. Stilul său se remarcă prin simplitate, umor și o capacitate rară de a vedea lumea prin ochii plini de mirare ai unui copil, elemente evidente în toate lucrările sale, de la seria cu pinguini la aventurile spațiale ale personajului Zoey.
Descriere scurtă
I'm serious.
Just put it back on the shelf.
Right... now.
You're still reading this?
Well, don't say I didn't warn you...
It looks like a book, it feels like a book, it even smells like a book, but watch out... madness and mayhem lie within. Debut author Adam Lehrhaupt encourages readers NOT to take a walk on the wild side in this humorous interactive book for little ones. And Eisner Award-winning comic artist and illustrator, Matthew Forsythe's quirky, inventive and engaging illustrations will delight readers of all ages.
Notă biografică
Matthew Forsythe is an award-winning comic book artist and illustrator. His first children's book, My Name Is Elizabeth! by Annika Dunklee, was a named a 2011 New York Times Notable Children's Book. His illustrations have appeared in many publications including the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Los Angeles where he is the Lead Designer on the animated series, Adventure Time on the Cartoon Network. Visit him at comingupforair.net.
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Children won’t be able to resist the urge to turn the page as they wade through caution tape, warning signs, and scenes of chaos. The madcap mayhem includes monkeys stealing the illustrator’s tools to paint their own drippy forest, a flock of swooping toucans, and an alligator sprawled across several spreads. Only the introduction of a banana trap can possibly save the story. The witty text is direct, and the art soars and leaps as much as the animals. Forsythe’s digital art features a subtle palette of browns and grays and the characters are rendered in a bold contemporary style with simple broad strokes. In the grand tradition of books that warn children away from reading them ... this one invites readers into the action. More fun than a barrel of monkeys
Debut author Lehrhaupt and New York Times Notable Children’s Book illustrator Forsythe (My Name Is Elizabeth!, 2011) team up for a laugh-out-loud romp through monkey-infested pages.
From the title and the endpapers’ warning signs (“I guess you don’t mind being mauled by mo___s”) to the opening pages’ admonishments not to venture further, the narrator repeatedly warns readers not to open this book. Those who do not heed these pleas release a troop of artistic monkeys that wreak havoc on the book itself. Nothing is safe from these wild invaders—not the art and not the text. When the narrator again urges readers to turn back, toucans join the fracas. Forsythe uses the same warm palette for the toucans as the monkeys, adding a nice continuity to an otherwise strange addition that slows down this well-paced story. Before the toucans can do much, an alligator shows up, frightening everyone. With chaos reigning supreme, the narrator turns to readers for help in laying out a plan to snare the animals inside the book. Forsythe’s digitally rendered art is hilariously expressive and laugh-worthy in its own right, and it is well-paired with Lehrhaupt’s spare comic text, successfully creating a book that is enjoyable both to read and behold.
In the tradition of humorous metafictive offerings of the past, this celebration of chaos is a veritable festival of fun.
Audiences are warned right away about about opening this picture book: “You don’t want to let the monkeys out.” The intrepid and curious, though, will forge on to find a single monkey poking his head in from the edge of the page—followed by a barrage of monkeys on the next, who muck everything up by fiddling with the text and splashing paint all over the illustrations. Continuing (and ignoring the narrator’s pleas to stop) leads to a slew of similarly invasive toucans and finally one very large and scary alligator. All hope seems to be lost until the narrator has an idea: “Only you can make things right. You should set a trap!” Once the trap, a banana, has been rigged, audiences can then slam the book shut with squeals of glee, keeping the mess of creatures stuck inside... Forsythe’s earth-toned, messy digital illustrations escalate along with the text, starting with warning signs against an austere white background but, as the critters get out of control, becoming full-bleed chaos. The art is also also reminiscent of a kid’s watercolor paintings, a feeling enhanced by the blob-shaped monkeys and wonky alligator—and the fact that the monkeys themselves draw the trees in the background. Kids following along will relish the exhilaration of breaking the rules as well as the simple but clever means of cleaning it all up. Expect the titular exhortation on this one to be thoroughly ignored again and again.
Warning: Do Not Open This Book!
by Adam Lehrhaupt, illus. by Matthew Forsythe
In the spirit of Press Here and other inventive books that play with the possibilities of the page turn, this debut from author Adam Lehrhaupt unequivocally warns children to close this book and turn away from it. So... kids won't be able to resist, just to see what their act of rebellion yields.
"Maybe you should put this book back. You don't want to let the monkeys out," the book begins. Matthew Forsythe (My Name Is Elizabeth!) draws a wide-eyed monkey on a sign that says "DANGER." When children inevitably turn the page, they are greeted with, "Why did you turn the page? Didn't you see the warning? Stay on this page. You are safe here." Signs that read "Stop," "Go Back" and "U-Turn," plus barbed wire and orange pylons, suggest that readers proceed at their own risk. On the next page, a monkey appears from stage right ("Oh, no. Now you've done it"); others follow. They parade onto the pages wielding paint cans, tubes of paint and brushes ("What a mess! Naughty monkeys"). While the story warns against impending doom, children will delight in the consequences of each page turn; the monkeys' artwork results in a lush and tropical landscape of gold, forest green and burnt orange. Everything halts due to the entrance of a predator, and it's up to readers to save the naughty monkeys.
Lehrhaupt delivers a brilliant conclusion to this hilarious romp, which involves readers to the very end. --Jennifer M. Brown, children's editor, Shelf Awareness
Discover: A picture book that warns children to walk away from it--ensuring they'll eagerly turn every page to view the consequences.
Reverse psychology runs rampant in this amusing collaboration between first-time author Lehrhaupt and award-winning illustrator Forsythe. Opening this book is like venturing into a cordoned-off danger zone. Those who disobey the cover threats are met with four pages of comically dire signs: “Come On . . . Seriously?” and “I Guess You Don’t Mind Being Mauled by Monkeys.” There’s a catch-your-breath moment after the reader turns the next page, quickly followed by a riot of monkeys barreling across a double-page spread, toting paints, crayons, and a guitar. The narrator implores the reader to get out before things get worse. And they do get worse, with the destructive monkeys being followed by toucans and an alligator that opens his jaws very, very wide. At last, the narrator supplies the reader with an ingenious way to lure the whole zoo back into the confines of the book. The earth-tone digital illustrations well replicate the messy monkey business of painting all over the trees and pages, and the playful arrangement of text adds greatly to the book’s mayhem. Wonderful chaos.