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The Masterwork Of A Painting Elephant (2011)

by Michelle Cuevas(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0374348545 (ISBN13: 9780374348540)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

review 1: the book the masterwork of a painting elephant is a great story for everyone because it has comedy, romance, and it is touching.it has comedy because ts a story about a young boy with giant ears that falls in love with a girl named Darling. The boys name is Pigeon Jones. That is his name because a elephant named Birch named him.it had romance in it. One of the people that fell in love was Pigeon Jones with Darling. Darling wants to work with animals and Pigeon barley knows anything about them but he is learning from her.The other people that fell in love were Birch the elephant and the acrobat named Dahlia. They both used to work in a circus together but Birch ran away never to return.It was touching because Pigeon was left on orphanage steps by his own mother and he hope... mores to find his parents and he looks and looks but he sadly cannot it was a very touching story.
review 2: I really did like this sweet sweet story/fable about an elephant and a boy who lives on his back. It brings to mind the delight of being optimistic in a dreary world, and the joy you can get when you 'color' your world with happiness. However, I knocked it down a star or two because I felt there were many lessons shared in such a way that a kid wouldn't get it at all. For example, near the end, Cuevas writes, "You use wood to build a boat, but it's in the space where there is nothing that the boat becomes useful." And then she goes on to connect that to Pigeon finally getting off of Birch's back. Now, I ask you, what kid is going to understand that abstract concept? I am not sure I even get exactly what she was trying to say.Cuevas painted her images very well, with lots of beautiful color. But while this got great reviews, I don't think a kid will like it. less

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