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People (2011)

by Blexbolex(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1592701108 (ISBN13: 9781592701100)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Enchanted Lion Books

review 1: At first glance I didn't think I would like this book. I wanted to do my old style of looking quickly through to determine if/how I'd use the book in the future and move on to the next book. At a glance, it felt like a catalog of interesting but flat illustrations. Hah! Before I put it down, I came across the facing pages of NUDIST and INVISIBLE MAN and the connections, humor, layers and constantly shifting "mediating" of meaning on each set of facing pages overtook me. What fun this book would be to use with a kid where you had time to look at each page and let the associations spill out.
review 2: This was so much fun! Blexbolex continually sets us up to switch on us. Construction and deconstruction over and over. You think it's going to be the basic "there a... morere people of all shapes and sizes and colors" kind of book, and then suddenly: CORPSE, RETIREE. Blexbolex is in control of the juxtaposition on every spread, but uses it differently in waves. Sometimes the pages are visually related (super multi modal!), and sometimes they are semantically related, and sometimes a little of both, and then sometimes NONE of these. The workup to the ending creates tension, and then there's a brilliant discussion to be had on the last page, because of all the workup. I'll be buying this one! Warning: Some daring Euro-style illustrations. less

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