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El Artista Que Pintó Un Caballo Azul (2011)

by Eric Carle(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0399257357 (ISBN13: 9780399257353)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Philomel

review 1: Not my favorite Eric Carle book, but it has a good message. It inspires children to create art, and it doesn't have to be "perfect". There's a board game based off of the book that Sam loves to play. You create your own animal drawings. It's great for learning colors. Sam gets frustrated when mine "looks better than his", so we go and read the book. As a four year old, he is really concerned with winning and losing, so this book has helped him understand that he's not going to make something "perfect" every time.
review 2: 2 STARS for the story (mostly for the illustrations, actually) but an additional star for the biographical information provided at the end.I was very disappointed in this book, I'm afraid. I really could not reconcile the "story" aspect with ... morethe biographical information in this book. I thought going into it that it was a biography of Carle, then I thought maybe it was supposed to be a biography of Franz Marc (whose art inspired Carle) after I read the biographical info at the back. I realize the two are rather interrelated as Marc influenced Carle, but I just found the story itself very lackluster and it did not, to me, show any sort of storytelling magic or biographical usefulness. The illustrations were great and classic Carle, though; I think my favorite was the green lion :-)I guess I would give the story itself is probably be best suited to younger children. The biographical information seemed a bit beyond the level of the rest of the book, and while I appreciated what was offered, I felt there could have been more. Or maybe I was just frustrated that more wasn't included in the story proper and geared toward that younger picture book audience. As it is, I think parents/educators need to bring a lot to the story. Even ignoring the history/biography aspect, I'm not sure Carle's message about how it is okay to paint something differently than how it appears in real life really came through. It just seemed to me a story about a boy who liked to paint animals. less

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