December
Bunting, Eve, Diaz, David | Sandpiper
13,000원 | 20001001 | 9780152024222
Simon and his Mum don't have much - the cardboard house they built for themselves, a tiny Christmas tree and a picture of an angel pinned to one wall. On Christmas Eve they take in a frail stranger who needs a place to keep warm.
David Diaz has illustrated numerous award-winning books for children, includingSmoky Nightby Eve Bunting, for which he was awarded the Caldecott Medal;The Wandererby Sharon Creech, which received a Newbery Honor; andDiego: Bigger Than Lifeby Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, a Pura Belpre Honor Award winner. An illustrator and graphic designer for more than twenty-five years, he is also a painter and an accomplished ceramic artist. Mr. Diaz lives in Carlsbad, California.
Eve Bunting and David Diaz are the creators of Smoky Night, which was awarded the Caldecott Medal. They both live in Southern California.
Simon and his mom don't have much--the cardboard house they built for themselves, a tiny Christmas tree, and a picture of an angel pinned to one wall. On Christmas Eve they take in a frail stranger who needs a place to keep warm, and the next morning Simon wakes early to find that the woman has vanished. Instead, he sees December, the angel from the picture, with her wings fanned out over their cardboard house. Could she be real?
Grade 1-4. A story singular in its originality; its artwork; and its contemporary, multilayered theme that is ultimately filled with joy and peace despite its stark setting. On Christmas Eve, a homeless boy and his mother share their small cardboard-box home with an elderly stranger. The next morning, she is gone. And outside, the child thinks'but cannot believe'he sees an angel like the one on his December calendar page. The story ends a year later, when his situation has changed. His mother has a job and they have moved to a small apartment. It is then he observes that his calendar angel wears a rose just like the one the stranger had put on his Christmas tree. The message of charity as a risk worth taking in a dangerous world is a sobering, thoughtful holiday message. So deft in her writing, Bunting creates a mood or expresses an emotion with a simple sentence or phrase. Diaz's now-familiar angular, almost stained-glass figures dominate illustrations that are set against backgrounds so striking in their creativity and complexity that they would overwhelm a lesser story. The artist uses a mix of media and repetitive patterns to create unusual designs that give each backdrop a multidimensional look. One of a very few holiday books that has both art and writing so strong that they effectively mesh to create a truly unique title.
Simon and his mother do not have much except for the cardboard house they built, a tiny Christmas tree, and a picture of an angel on the wall. On Christmas Eve, they take in a frail stranger looking for a place to keep warm. The next morning, Simon discovers the woman has vanished. Could she have been an angel? Full-color illustrations.
