Overview / 简介: |
One night the moon never rises...
A lonely boy finds the fallen moon in a field. He takes it home and cares for it, slowly helping it heal. They become inseparable companions, exploring the world together both day and night. But when the world needs the moon to remember its place in the sky, the boy must help it find its way back home.
This is an unforgettable tale of an unusual friendship by world-renowned illustrator Jimmy Liao. Gorgeous, evocative illustrations tell an imaginative story of love and courage; the world will never forget the time when the moon forgot. |
From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| Grade 1–5—This allegorical tale of a boy who finds and befriends a fallen moon and then helps it find its way back home warrants repeated readings. The threads of the story depend squarely on the black line and watercolor illustrations for interpretation. When the moon inexplicably plummets into a pond, the normal lunar cycles stop. Factories respond to this crisis by manufacturing shining full moons for everyone. Meanwhile, the boy takes the real moon home, and they develop a close friendship. Eventually the world's artificial moons grow dim and useless, and the boy knows he must persuade the real one to resume its rightful place in the Earth's orbit. Juxtaposing day and night, shadow and light in glowing shades of blue, green, and yellow, page spreads, some of them stunning, vary in design and contrast busily detailed urban street scenes with restful natural landscapes. Giant woodland animals, mysteriously lurking in the shadows of city or forest, punctuate the dreamlike nature of the story. Liao's fans will find plenty of his trademark imagery, inventiveness, and meditative musings in this offering.—Kathleen Finn, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, VT |
Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| The original Chinese edition of this book is 5 stars. The English edition gets 3 due to the butchering done by the publisher and the translators. Now I may be too harsh here, but if you haven't experienced the original...
I stumbled across Jimmy Liao in the giant Xidan bookstore in Beijing several years ago. I picked up The Blue Stone in Chinese. My Chinese is pathetically limited, but the story is quite moving and profound. Since then I have collected as many of the books in the original Chinese as I could find. The illustrations are fabulous. The stories appeal to children and adults. They are often a bit melancholy.
I bought the English edition of this book some time after I acquired the original Chinese edition. I have noticed a very disappointing pattern in the English editions. They are missing up to a third of the pages and the story is much simpler. The multiple levels of the story are removed and what is left is a straightforward lightweight children's book. The subtly is gone and the darker aspects of the stories are removed. It feels like the story has been artificially Westernized as well.
Imagine Maurice Sendak or Roald Dahl watered down to remove the scary bits and to make the story more approachable? Oh well, the book is still magical and brilliant. |
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