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From: Sally Miller <derbymiller>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:01:43 -0400
I agree with Megan -- the images in this book are stunning. If you get a chance to look at it, be sure to open it wide so that you can see the entire painting that comprise the front and back covers in its glorious entirety.
Sally Derby
----- Original Message ----- From: "Megan Schliesman" <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:30 PM Subject: [CCBC-Net] CSK Illustrator Books: Poetry of Langston Hughes
> This morning I was just talking about the CSK illustrator books to a
> group and was struck once again by some of the powerful images created
> by Benny Andrews for Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes.
>
> One particular image that never fails to take my breath away is the one
> he did for "Dream Variations"--it's the figure of a boy or young man
> standing up on tiptoe, curved shoulders hunched as his arms extend
> straight out in front of him. His hands curve downward, and cascading
> from/between his draped and angled fingers and spreading down in a
> funnel and across the bottom of the page and beneath his feet is the
> word "Dreams" repeated over and over again. The word extends up the
> facing page as well. It's as if he is casting a transformative spell,
> and it conveys the power of both words and dreams to me. The colors are
> also striking: blocks of orange and blue--complements (like the power of
> words and dreams?)--with white for stunning contrast.
>
> Megan
>
> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
> Cooperative Children's Book Center
> School of Education, UW-Madison
> 600 N. Park St., Room 4290
> Madison, WI 53706
>
> ph: 608-262-9503
> fax: 608-262-4933
> schliesman at education.wisc.edu
>
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Received on Fri 23 Mar 2007 12:01:43 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:01:43 -0400
I agree with Megan -- the images in this book are stunning. If you get a chance to look at it, be sure to open it wide so that you can see the entire painting that comprise the front and back covers in its glorious entirety.
Sally Derby
----- Original Message ----- From: "Megan Schliesman" <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:30 PM Subject: [CCBC-Net] CSK Illustrator Books: Poetry of Langston Hughes
> This morning I was just talking about the CSK illustrator books to a
> group and was struck once again by some of the powerful images created
> by Benny Andrews for Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes.
>
> One particular image that never fails to take my breath away is the one
> he did for "Dream Variations"--it's the figure of a boy or young man
> standing up on tiptoe, curved shoulders hunched as his arms extend
> straight out in front of him. His hands curve downward, and cascading
> from/between his draped and angled fingers and spreading down in a
> funnel and across the bottom of the page and beneath his feet is the
> word "Dreams" repeated over and over again. The word extends up the
> facing page as well. It's as if he is casting a transformative spell,
> and it conveys the power of both words and dreams to me. The colors are
> also striking: blocks of orange and blue--complements (like the power of
> words and dreams?)--with white for stunning contrast.
>
> Megan
>
> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
> Cooperative Children's Book Center
> School of Education, UW-Madison
> 600 N. Park St., Room 4290
> Madison, WI 53706
>
> ph: 608-262-9503
> fax: 608-262-4933
> schliesman at education.wisc.edu
>
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