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Doesn't have your answer to the artist's name but this is a great promo for the book. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuIsAIKiNgY Sharron At 5:45 PM -0400 7/3/10, BudNotBuddy@aol.com wrote: > >Richie's Picks: ART & MAX by David Wiesner, Clarion, October 2010, 40p., >ISBN: 978-0-618-75663-6 > >"When that fat old sun in the sky is falling, >Summer evening birds are calling >Children's laughter in my ears >The last sunlight disappears >And if you see, don't make a sound >Pick your feet up off the ground >And if you hear as the warm night falls >The silver sound from a time so strange >Sing to me >Sing to me" >-- David Gilmour, 1970 > >I've always found that any interactive educational process, when it is >working, is a two-way street. The teacher evolves through teaching just as >the student grows through learning. The artistic teen with whom I shared >this groundbreaking picturebook believes it is even more generally the case >that we are all constantly changing through interaction with everyone with >whom we come in contact. > >"I can paint too, Arthur!" > >David Wiesner begins ART & MAX, a tale of two reptilian artists and the >transformative power of art, by paying a visual homage to some of his >adolescent inspirations: George Herriman, Pete Townsend, and Pink >Floyd. Being >someone with a lot of happy, long-lived memories from 1970 -- age fifteen for > me, fourteen for Wiesner -- I am dying to know what the other three >stacked-up record albums he's depicted are. In fact, I've emailed some old >friends to see if they could figure out the fifth one in the stack from the >distinctive pattern on its spine. Nobody knows and now they are all waiting >for the answer, too. (This is just like being back in high school, sitting >around, deciphering album covers...) > >"'Arthur? What should I paint?' >"'Well...you could paint me.' >"'You? Really?' > >Arthur is the master artist and Max is the rambunctious beginner. In >playing the role of the wiseguy -- taking Arthur literally and proceeding to >cover him with paint -- Max instigates a journey through the exploration of >artistic media. When Max covers Arthur with the paint, Arthur's fury >causes the layer of paint to crack and then shatter, leaving Arthur >depicted in >a layer of pastels. Then Max points a fan in his direction, blowing away >the pastels to reveal Arthur depicted in watercolors. Next, Max plies >Arthur with water, which washes out the watercolors to reveal >Arthur depicted as >a line drawing. Grabbing Arthur's tail, Max unwinds what is left of >Arthur and ends up with a jumble of thread-like line from which he >then needs to >reconstruct his mentor. Arthur, of course, will never be the same again. > >"His eyes are the eyes that transmit all they know >Sparkle warm crystalline glances to show >That he is your leader and he is your guide >On the amazing journey together you'll ride" >-- Pete Townsend (1969) > >It is almost scary to see the extent of David Wiesner's magic through >which he pushes the envelope book after book. Upon savoring that >magic in ART >& MAX for a while, one can just imagine some fourteen year-old aspiring >artist getting his or her hands on this amazing journey of a picturebook and >never again being the same. > > >Richie Partington, MLIS >Richie's Picks _http://richiespicks.com_ (http://richiespicks.com/) >BudNotBuddy@aol.com >Moderator _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/_ >(http://groups.yahoo.com/middle_school_lit/) >Moderator _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EcolIt/_ >(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EcolIt/) >_http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/faculty/partingtonr/partingtonr.php_ >(http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/faculty/partingtonr/partingtonr.php) > >FTC NOTICE: Richie receives free books from lots of publishers who hope he > will Pick their books. You can figure that any review was written after >reading and dog-earring a free copy received. Richie retains these review >copies for his rereading pleasure and for use in his booktalks at schools >and libraries. > > >_______________________________________________ >child_lit mailing list >child_lit@email.rutgers.edu >https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/child_lit -- ============================================= Sharron L. McElmeel http://www.mcelmeel.com McBookwords (a literacy organization) http://www.mcbookwords.com/ & Instructor - University of Wisconsin-Stout http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/childrenslit http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/yalit 3000 N Center Point Rd Cedar Rapids, IA 52411-9548 ph. (319) 393-2562 fax (319) 393-4749 NEW: Best Teen Reads 2010 (HiWillow, 2010) Picture That! 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