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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A delightful book with spellbinding illustrations,
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This review is from: Rama and Sita (Hardcover)
The Ramayana, as told in Javanese shadow plays, is a tale for all ages. Weitzman creates magical images in color and gold inks based on the shadow puppets. These, by themselves, would be enough to recommend the book, but the language of the retelling of this classic tale is enough to have my six year old and nine year old both coming back again and again. We're buying a second copy for when the first one wears out.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Read it for David Weitzman...,
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This review is from: Rama and Sita (Hardcover)
I knew the story of Rama and Sita, and wanted to know how David Weitzman (of the 'Brown Paper School book' series) treated it. I should say it was good. Though the story is the same, this is the Javanese version of the same story of Rama and Sita, and obviously is a bit different in places, from the scriptures available in India, where the original mythological legend is based on.
Weitzman has a knack for making it seem friendly and appealing to children and in this book he uses his own artistic projection, while keeping the basic form of the art intact. The figurines in the book resemble the puppets used in ancient Javanese version of the art of puppetry, marked by their long-limbed figurines. David makes these shadow forms glitter, with his usage of gold color. Worth reading for kids interested in legendary mythologies. |
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Rama and Sita by David Weitzman (Hardcover - Dec. 2002)
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