"[A] dazzling vision of the way art transcends the everyday." -
Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW On a gray and crowded city
sidewalk, a child discovers a book. That evening, the child begins
to read and is immediately carried beyond the repetitive sameness
of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural landscape. The child
experiences a moment of true joy, and as if in response to that
single blissful moment, people seem to come alive in all the other
rooms of the apartment block. Thanks to the power of one book, an
entire society is transformed. In creating this book, Geraldo
Valerio was inspired by the German Expressionist group known as Der
Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), which formed in Munich in 1911 and
included painters Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky. These artists
sought to find the spiritual significance in art, with an emphasis
on form and color. In turn, Valerio has created a wordless book
that speaks volumes about how art can transform us beyond the
sometimes-dreary world of the everyday. Correlates to the Common
Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details
in a text.
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