Overview / 简介: |
| In bed at night Billy frets about everything, from standard clothing items (shoes) to normal weather phenomena (clouds). His parents do their best to reassure him, but to no avail. Staying over at Grandma's, he is overwhelmed with anxiety until she gives him Guatemalan worry dolls, the perfect antidote for night terrors. |
Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| The always-interesting Browne adds a bit of Central American ambience to his typically British setting. Billy, hair parted, in gray-flannel shorts, is a worrier. In imaginative, almost surrealistic ink drawings, Billy worries about hats, shoes, giant birds. When he worries about rain, the picture shows him in his bedroom, floating on waves of water. His parents try to bolster him, but it's not until he stays at his grandmother's house that help appears--in the form of several brightly colored Guatemalan worry dolls. At first they help Billy sleep, but then he starts worrying that he has given the worry dolls too many worries. His creative solution is to make little dolls for the little dolls. The story is slight, but the pictures are amazing. In counterpoint to the monochromatic worry scenes are pictures so vivid and colorful, they ease concern and spread cheer with each turn of the page. Children will enjoy looking at the multiplying personal dolls and may ask for some of their own. A short note explains their genesis. Ilene Cooper
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About the Author / 作者介绍: |
| Anthony Edward Tudor Browne (born 11 September 1946) is a British author and illustrator of children's books with nearly forty titles to his name. For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2000, the first British illustrator to do so. From 2009 to 2011 he was Children's Laureate. Browne won two Kate Greenaway Medals from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named his 1983 medalist Gorilla one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.
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