ISBN: 9781534439467
Editorial: Atheneum
Autor: Reynolds, Jason
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 384
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Críticas *"Reynolds' wrenching and hope-filled poem is divided into three steadying "breaths," marking the family's isolated, wheel-spinning activities; the father's physical crisis; and the family's reunion. As the poetry makes its way from anguish to hope and recovery, Griffin traces the same emotional journey through mixed media artwork... spreads built of gritty texture and turbulent imagery and fiery red blazes fracture just enough to let in streaks of blue sky; then scenes widen for bright, homey quilts and are soon dominated by a family cozied on a sofa on a verdant field of grass. This powerful title may become the memory book for how we made it through troubled times."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review*Reynolds's introspective narrative poem shares the stage with Griffin's emotive collage-like illustrations to create an authentic young adult narrator trying to grapple with the confusion and fear of the double pandemic (COVID-19 and systemic racism) he is facing. -NICHOLL DENICE MONTGOMERY--Horn Book Magazine, *STARRED**"Ain't Burned All the Bright is a gripping, emotional look into the life of a Black family living through what is evidently the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Artist Jason Griffin (My Name Is Jason, Mine Too) has designed this book as a notebook-style journal, separated by author Jason Reynolds (Stamped; Long Way Down) into three parts: "Breath One," "Breath Two" and "Breath Three." In the first breath, a Black first-person child narrator grapples with the protests he sees on the news about people who look like him fighting for "the freedom to breathe." With breath two, the child observes his family members in the living room while his father coughs incessantly in his bedroom. His father, despite the "rattling hack," reaches out to his son with optimism. In the third breath, the boy becomes overwhelmed with worry: "It feels like I'm the only person who can tell we're all suffocating." As the news makes him spiral, he sees "the beginning/ of a laugh" on his mother's face. Though the boy still wonders about the world, he is able to take a breath "in through the nose/ out through the mouth." Griffin ... shows his creativity and range by also including abstract pages full of stark red and black paint and realistic figures like George Floyd or illustrations of hands. Reynolds's spare free verse appears as text printed out then taped down on top of the art. Together, the two creators channel the weight of uncertainty and chaos that Black people endure, as well as the hope they carry with them on a regular basis."--Shelf Awareness, starred review*"In the summer of 2020, amid an unending news cycle of fear and death, millions of people took to the streets to protest the murders of not only George Floyd but also many more Black people by police officers. In Ain't Burned All the Bright (Caitlyn Dlouhy, $19.99, 9781534439467), author Jason Reynolds and artist Jason Griffin portray this claustrophobic spiral from the perspective of a young boy. "And I'm sitting here wondering why / my mother won't change the channel," the narrator begins, "and why the news won't / change the story." In sections titled "Breath One," "Breath Two" and "Breath Three," his desire to change the channel transforms into fearful imaginings of his family being consumed by smoke, water or illness. Griffin's art is the linchpin of the book. Dynamic and visceral, it is composed with paint, pencil and lined paper, as well as with Reynolds' text itself, which Griffin has cut out in strips of short phrases and placed into each spread. He skillfully juxtaposes vast spaces of black and white with color and texture; canvas tape and speckled paint make images feel urgently dimensional, while the blank spaces feel expansive. Many of the illustrations recall the densely saturated colors and silhouette figures of artist Kerry James Marshall. In the book's final pages, Griffin depicts a large leaf growing out
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Reynolds, Jason
- Editorial: Atheneum
- N° Paginas: 384
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
