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Mr. Flux (2013)

by Kyo Maclear(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1554537819 (ISBN13: 9781554537815)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Kids Can Press

review 1: Until Mr. Flux moves to the neighborhood, things have basically always been the same. Mr. Flux shows Martin and the neighborhood kids that change is a good thing, and that it’s not scary or bad!I would like to use Mr. Flux as a read aloud book at the beginning or end of the year, because it would be reassuring to students that change is natural and that change is okay. The story is also inspired by the Fluxus art movement from the 1960s, so it could easily be expanded to teach about art and history, and I could create a very cool Mr. Flux inspired unit!
review 2: An excellent, hilarious, and truly funky take on accepting change. Mr. Flux loves change all the time, he does things just to be different, like eating at a table made of a log, with a bear, collec... moreting phones, wearing fish on his head, stuff like that. Martin can barely stand to trade his old red bicycle for his new red bicycle. What an unlikely pair! But they become friends, teaching each other about the beauty of being weird and how it's ok to be a little normal sometimes too, and also - hey! about the value of both the surrealist (oh hey, Marcel Duchamp's urinal) and more traditional artistic traditions. This book is a great celebration of both real-life dealing with change, and the great variety and beauty of artistic philosophies. Without getting too technical or didactic. The illustrations really make the book, it's wacky but deliberate, and a whole lot of fun. In the grand tradition of Maira Kalmanish stuff, but also it's own thing, I really liked this book and would recommend it to any budding creative looking for something new and a little silly. less

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