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L'Imagier Des Gens (2008)

by Blexbolex(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

2226179879 (ISBN13: 9782226179876)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Albin Michel Jeunesse

review 1: This book is just a collection of simple illustrations of different professions and characters ("teacher", "warrior", "homeless man") done in the 1960s-schoolbook style. There's no reason this should be entertaining, but it is in fact charming and addictive. The interpretations are just interesting enough to poke your imagination, but not so quirky they lose their dictionary quality. Pairings on opposing pages are often quite clever, and sometimes touching. A surprisingly rich and likeable book.
review 2: It was the art drew me to pick up this book.This has the feel of an art book, rather than a picture book intended for young children.That said, I sat with my 6 year old and we "read" the whole thing together.Each page has a title and an image. He is a new read... moreer and figured some of the words out. We read this book very slowly. I paused a bit before each page turn waiting for..."Mom, what's a ________"Fill in the blank with: corpse, contortionist, fugitive, vagabond, fakir, immigrant, monk, cyclops, hermit, executioner, centaur, tyrant, etc.My 6 yr old is not a reader who gives his attention to books he is not interested in out of "readerly duty", and this book had his attention the entire time. It also sparked many interesting conversations. We looked things up when I didn't have a good way to explain something. We got out maps. And my son asked a lot of questions.I really enjoyed the experience this book provided us.I also liked the juxtaposition of people in the double page spreads. I didn't see the back of the book until we had finished, but it states: "All sorts of people are pictured here, linked in ways that begin to emerge page after page."Pairings like...Conductor (music) / TyrantDJ / ChefContortionist / PlumberHomeless Person / Camper...the pairings made more thought provoking with accompanying paired images.It would be interesting to use this book with older students with writing. less

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