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The Boy In The Garden (2010)

by Allen Say(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0547214103 (ISBN13: 9780547214108)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: Date: November 9th, 2014Author: Allen Say Title: The Boy in the Garden Plot: Jiro and his father visit a family friend with a New Year's gift when the little boy finds a crane and house on the family friends property. A beautiful woman appears and the boy believes that she is The Grateful Crane, the wife of a woodcutter who turned into a great bird when her husband broke his promise to her. Setting: Japan; Mr. Ozu's home Characters: Jiro (main character); Jiro's father; Mr. Ozu; The Grateful Crane/unnamed Japanese womanPoint-of-View: Third-Person; Past-TenseTheme: ImaginationStyle: Fiction; Picture-Book; Fairy-Tale/Folk-TaleCopyright: 2010Notes: Another great picture-book by Allen Say. Waiting for the next masterpiece!
review 2: As usual, Say's lovely paintings... more are stronger than his story, but I did find this story stronger than his norm. I liked the way he combined a myth (the Crane Wife) with a contemporary child's experience of hearing the story -- more original than the standard "retelling" or "modernization" of a fairy tale. I also thought he handled the little boy's thoughts and feelings very delicately and sensitively. less

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