本書(shū)是作者以他祖父的生平和一首猶太兒歌作為藍(lán)本,讀者在每一頁(yè)都可以看到作者對(duì)祖父一生安貧樂(lè)道、熱愛(ài)家人的回憶。同時(shí)他也以活潑的繪圖呈現(xiàn)傳統(tǒng)的猶太文化,鮮明的水彩色調(diào),加上鉛筆彩繪,以及雜志照片拼貼,東歐強(qiáng)烈的猶太民族色彩表露無(wú)遺。在文字方面,他用簡(jiǎn)單重復(fù)的句型 “Joseph had a little ____. It got old and worn. So he made a ___...
Joseph had a little overcoat.It was /got old and worn. Joseph had a little button.One day he lost it. Now he had nothing. So Joseph made a book about it.Which shows you can always make something out of nothing.
這是一本用多種繪畫(huà)手法呈現(xiàn)出的一本書(shū):水彩、水粉、鉛筆畫(huà)、collage...色彩很是濃重。一開(kāi)始看就給人很強(qiáng)烈的特定的民族色彩,往后兩頁(yè)看到猶太人Hanukkah的燭臺(tái)才知道joseph是個(gè)猶太人。 故事情節(jié)很簡(jiǎn)單,就是講joseph有一件破舊的大衣,被他改成夾克,破了以后再改成背心,破了以后再改成圍巾....最后被改成一粒紐扣,紐扣丟了后joseph就創(chuàng)作了這個(gè)故事。The moral of the story is "you can always make someth...