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Thirteen very short stories from acclaimed musician John Southworth will tweak your mind and peak your imagination. Meet the boy with grey hair, who spends his days on a cargo ship peeling potatoes, a strange man who keeps a Ferris wheel in his backyard, and a whale that lives in a manmade lake on the top of a faraway hill. Chock-full of details in their brevity, they beg to be mused over. Equally intriguing and unusual black and white illustrations by David Ouimet bright the strange, bizarre characters to life.
Like songs, these stories and the accompanying illustrations are evocative without limiting, and beg to be replayed.
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John Southworth is one of Canada’s most distinctive and iconoclastic music artists. A key collaborator with Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble, he performs regularly with his band The South Seas. Outside of his native Canada, his records have been released in the US, UK and Japan. For more info, go to www.johnsouthworth.ca.
David Ouimet is a New York-based artist and musician. He has illustrated several children’s books, and most recently has been experimenting with 19th century medical and scientific illustration techniques to create fine art.
Gr 5 Up—This unusual collection of very short tales gives readers a taste of the strange and obscure. The stories range from delightfully peculiar, like "Little Girls," to creepy and unsettling, like "Girl Guide Cookies." None of the entries interconnect and there are no true narratives in these tales. Each vignette is a glimpse of a strange scene, without very much description or any reconciliation. Ouimet's gorgeous drawings meld well with the style of these tales. The detail in the illustrations help enliven sometimes confusing stories; each one is slightly unsettling and helps to enhance the eerie yet whimsical tone of the book. While some children may find interest in the bizarre nature of these short works, it may be a difficult sell for most libraries. Many of the stories read more like lucid dream recollections, and children who are not strong readers may find them difficult to comprehend. VERDICT This gorgeously illustrated but rather odd title should be considered an additional purchase.—Ellen Norton, White Oak Library District, Crest Hill, IL
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- PublisherSimply Read Books
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 192701817X
- ISBN 13 9781927018170
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- Number of pages48
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