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Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad de James Rumford

Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad

Autor James Rumford
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 feb 2008 – vârsta de la 4 până la 8 ani

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Middle East Book Awards (2008), Red Clover Award (2010), Jane Addams Children's Book Award (2009)

WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen.

Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words to the silent music that drowns out the war all around him. Gorgeously illustrated with collage, pencil and charcoal drawings and, of course, exquisite calligraphy, this timely and yet universal story celebrates art and history but also offers young children a way to understand all they see and hear on the news.

"Silent Music" is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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ISBN-13: 9781596432765
ISBN-10: 1596432764
Pagini: 32
Dimensiuni: 287 x 210 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Roaring Brook Press
Locul publicării:New York, NY

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WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen. Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words to the silent music that drowns out the war all around him. Gorgeously illustrated with collage, pencil and charcoal drawings and, of course, exquisite calligraphy, this timely and yet universal story celebrates art and history but also offers young children a way to understand all they see and hear on the news. "Silent Music" is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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Publishers Weekly - Starred ReviewArt sings on the pages of this visual celebration of Arabic calligraphy as Rumford's (Sequoyah) collages of floral and geometric designs and flowing lines deftly echo Arabic language and patterns. "Writing a long sentence is like watching a soccer player in slow motion as he kicks the ball across the field, as I leave a trail of dots and loops behind me," says narrator Ali, explaining his love of calligraphy. Spreads incorporating stamps, money and postcards reinforce the Baghdad setting and complement representational scenes, such as an intricate collage of Ali huddling under a blanket next to his cat, writing. Arabic words, translated in places, sometimes embed in the pages as part of the illustrations, even patterning Ali's mother's dress. Like his hero, the famed calligrapher Yakut, who wrote through the destruction of Baghdad in 1258 ("he shut out the horror and wrote glistening letters of rhythm and grace"), Ali turns to calligraphy during the bombing of Baghdad in 2003. In an eloquent ending, he discovers that while the word "war" flows easily, the pen "stubbornly resists me when I make the difficult waves and slanted staff of salam--peace. Kirkus ReviewsA boy's ingenuous voice introduces American readers to the beauty and discipline of Arabic calligraphy in this mood piece set in Baghdad. Ali directly addresses readers, explaining how much he loves playing soccer and listening to loud music, and how he loves calligraphy even more: "my pen stopping and starting, gliding and sweeping, leaping dancing to the silent music in my head." His hero is Yakut, a 13th-century calligrapher who took solace in his art amidst the Mongol invasion. Like Yakut, Ali finds comfort in practicing his letters during the turmoil that has reigned in Baghdad since 2003. Rumford's sense of design is one of the keenest in the field; he incorporates patterned papers, collage elements and, over and over, the Arabic words themselves in his dusty, desert-co

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