- Bibliothekseinband: 48 Seiten
- Verlag: Knopf Books for Young Readers (17. August 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0517800675
- ISBN-13: 978-0517800676
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 29,5 x 23,7 x 1,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 1.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
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It takes God millions of years to make planet Earth, and when he finishes, he takes a long nap. Awakening, he returns to Earth to see how his paradisiacal planet is faring, and is disgusted at what human beings have done to pollute the air, the water, and the forests. Not only that, but humans are threatening each other with war, engaging in religious quarrels, and sinking into apathy.
God appoints two children to go tell grownups to change the way they are living. The adults who run the world, as well as the ones who ignore what's happening around them, pooh-pooh the children's message at first: "Whaddayamean? Don't waste our time, you snotty little kids. You can't tell us what to do. Run away, we're busy." But when the youngsters explain that it is God who told them to save the world, the grownups change their ways. Thankfully, children will be left with the sense that they can make a difference.
John Burningham's unusual illustrations, in pen and ink, watercolor wash, and collage, provide a picture of the planet no reader will forget. Winner of several awards, including two Kate Greenaway Medals and four New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year Awards, Burningham is one of the most highly acclaimed children's author-illustrators of our time. Some of his best-loved children's books include Mr. Gumpy's Outing and an earlier environmental fable, Hey! Get Off Our Train. (Click to see a sample spread. Copyright 1999 by John Burningham. With permission of Crown Publishers, Inc.) --Emilie Coulter -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Even the genius of Burningham's (Cloudland; Hey! Get Off Our Train) mixed-media illustrations can't redeem this muddy eco-parable. It starts with Creation: God spends millions of years making Earth; then, pleased but tired, goes to sleep "for a very long time." When he wakes up, he decides to look at his handiwork, but, "not wanting to be seen, God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the people." Somehow two children escape this sleep, and God takes them along on his tour. Furious at the pollution of the sea and air, the ravaging of the forests and the melting of the polar ice, he charges the children to "go and tell the grownups to change the way they are living." So the children approach businessmen ("the men with the money"), religious leaders, military honchos, the passive masses. "Whaddayamean?" the adults respond, until the children explain that God has sent them. "Oh, if it is God who said we must change our ways, then we must change our ways at once," each group responds, so blithely that readers may think the tone sarcastic. But invoking God is all it takes to end pollution, war, poverty, etc. The message to young readers is murky at best, and the audience might be better off simply admiring the art. Inventively multilayered, it attractively blends collages, rudimentary sketches and pastoral paintings as it reflects the story's movement from darkness to light. Here, in abundance, is the childlike innocence and wonder so conspicuously missing from the text. Ages 5-8. (Aug.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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What a fictitious account of God. Where did this idea of a slumbering God come from? I would not recommend this book for either child or adult. The book uses negative generalizations concerning God, and thrusts the responsiblity of saving the world on the shoulders of children so that he may come visit them again AFTER they clean it up.
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