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.
本書是作者以他祖父的生平和一首猶太兒歌作為藍本，讀者在每一頁都可以看到作者對祖父一生安貧樂道、熱愛家人的回憶。同時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，加上鉛筆彩繪，以及雜志照片拼貼，東歐強烈的猶太民族色彩表露無遺。在文字方面，他用簡單重復的句型 “Joseph had a little ____. It got old and worn. So he made a ___...
這是一本用多種繪畫手法呈現(xiàn)出的一本書：水彩、水粉、鉛筆畫、collage...色彩很是濃重。一開始看就給人很強烈的特定的民族色彩，往后兩頁看到猶太人Hanukkah的燭臺才知道joseph是個猶太人。 故事情節(jié)很簡單，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)作了這個故事。The moral of the story is "you can always make someth...
2014
