River Town - Rilegato

Geisert, Bonnie; Geisert, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 0395908914 ISBN 13: 9780395908914

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Riassunto

Describes, in brief text and illustrations, a year in the life of a nineteenth-century river bank town and the many changes--both large and small--that occur throughout the seasons. By the creators of Prairie Town. 10,000 first printing.

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The Geiserts continue their panoramic documentation of American small town life with this follow-up to Prairie Town (1998). With perspectives that sometimes hover high overhead, and other times just a bit above ground level, this offers sharp- eyed observers four seasons' worth of events in a hamlet which is never shown in its entirety. Over a set of wooden captions (``Halloween foretells the end of fall and the beginning of winter. It is a time to turn from work to play''), the illustrator creates a series of finely detailed landscapes, into which he introduces tiny changes, but also a disorienting disassociation of scale by zooming in, for example, on children, then zooming back out for scenes of a train wreck or spring flood. Readers may derive some passing pleasure in locating and poring over successive disasters (and determining their chronology: children skate on one part of the river, while a truck falls through rapidly cracking ice; in the illustration opposite that one, a framed picture of that truck going through the ice hangs in the cafe), but the underlying themesthe co-existence of past and present, the deliberate pace of life and of changeare more clearly evoked in the previous book.
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Book by Geisert Bonnie

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0395908914
• ISBN 13: 9780395908914
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 32