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Editorial Reviews
Review
Another successful entry in the new Toon imprint (see Benny and Penny and Otto s Orange Day, also reviewed in this issue), this book is aimed at brand-new readers. Rosenstiehl follows Lilly (who appears to be three or four years old) as she undertakes simple, familiar activities through the seasons. In spring, she plays with her toy bear in the park; in summer, she's off to the beach; in fall, she picks and eats apples; in winter, she plays in the snow. When spring returns, she soars on a swing. Lilly is bold and engaging in both her rounded, childlike appearance and her heartfelt approach to the real world and to her imagined one. The text is very brief (only a few words per panel), the colors are warm and bright, and the panels are large enough to draw in children new to books and reading. A good fit for the intended audience.
-Francisca Goldsmith --Booklist
Signature Review by Leonard S. Marcus
'What is there about Comics that makes children like them so well?' An exasperated schoolteacher posed this question in an article from the 1940s chronicling the uphill battle she and her colleagues were then waging against comic books, which they considered sub-literary fare. The battle lines have long since been redrawn, the graphic novel having attained critical mass and the comics aesthetic having slowly inched its way toward children's literature respectability on the backs of occasional forays into the genre by Maurice Sendak and others, and of more sustained efforts such as the Little Lit series edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly. Now New Yorker art director Mouly, with Spiegelman as in-house adviser, takes the field again with the release of the first three titles from Toon Books, an innovative line of early readers presented in comics format.
On the evidence of Rosenstiehl's initial contribution, Dick and Jane may now pack up their things and leave town for good. In this little marvel of distilled storytelling, five wee seasonal vignettes, starting and ending with spring, place a spry young girl in familiar situations that give free rein to her curiosity and love of action. As Lilly plays in the park, finds a snail at the shore, samples a basket of apples, hurls snowballs and swings on a swing, her bright thoughts and warblings appear overhead in speech balloons, in words of one to three syllables. Twice, a teddy bear serves as the straight man; in the winter scene, for example, he impassively takes a snowball on the chin ('Oops! Sorry, Teddy! I was only kidding!'). This comic moment, like others that Rosenstiehl extracts from her rigorously pared-down materials, draws us directly into Lilly's emotional world, where attention is routinely paid to everything, from a lowly dandelion on up. To know Lilly is to want to know what she has to say.
Lilly, who is already familiar to children of the author's native France as Mimi Cracra, is Little Lulu with dance lessons. Apple-cheeked and graceful, she s nobody's fool, and her expressive action poses double as telltale clues to the child poised to begin decoding the printed word independently. Rosenstiehl's uncomplicated layouts two panes of equal size per page, four per spread and minimalist backdrops likewise keep the focus where it belongs: on the adventure of taking the measure of everyday things, whether it be a tiny sea creature washed up by a wave or the words I'm flying. Ages 4-up. --Publishers Weekly
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Lilly is a spunky little girl who delights in the unexpected pleasures of each season, peering inside shells in the summer and tasting different kinds of apples in the fall. In this charming and subtle book by one of France's premier children's book authors, Lilly learns more about the outdoors, and introduces the youngest readers to the colors, words, and shapes that arise in nature. Silly Lilly's intimate monologues deftly capture a child's sense of wonder, in five whimsical episodes that cycle through the calendar from spring back to spring again.
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Another successful entry in the new Toon imprint (see Benny and Penny and Otto s Orange Day, also reviewed in this issue), this book is aimed at brand-new readers. Rosenstiehl follows Lilly (who appears to be three or four years old) as she undertakes simple, familiar activities through the seasons. In spring, she plays with her toy bear in the park; in summer, she's off to the beach; in fall, she picks and eats apples; in winter, she plays in the snow. When spring returns, she soars on a swing. Lilly is bold and engaging in both her rounded, childlike appearance and her heartfelt approach to the real world and to her imagined one. The text is very brief (only a few words per panel), the colors are warm and bright, and the panels are large enough to draw in children new to books and reading. A good fit for the intended audience.
-Francisca Goldsmith --Booklist
Signature Review by Leonard S. Marcus
'What is there about Comics that makes children like them so well?' An exasperated schoolteacher posed this question in an article from the 1940s chronicling the uphill battle she and her colleagues were then waging against comic books, which they considered sub-literary fare. The battle lines have long since been redrawn, the graphic novel having attained critical mass and the comics aesthetic having slowly inched its way toward children's literature respectability on the backs of occasional forays into the genre by Maurice Sendak and others, and of more sustained efforts such as the Little Lit series edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly. Now New Yorker art director Mouly, with Spiegelman as in-house adviser, takes the field again with the release of the first three titles from Toon Books, an innovative line of early readers presented in comics format.
On the evidence of Rosenstiehl's initial contribution, Dick and Jane may now pack up their things and leave town for good. In this little marvel of distilled storytelling, five wee seasonal vignettes, starting and ending with spring, place a spry young girl in familiar situations that give free rein to her curiosity and love of action. As Lilly plays in the park, finds a snail at the shore, samples a basket of apples, hurls snowballs and swings on a swing, her bright thoughts and warblings appear overhead in speech balloons, in words of one to three syllables. Twice, a teddy bear serves as the straight man; in the winter scene, for example, he impassively takes a snowball on the chin ('Oops! Sorry, Teddy! I was only kidding!'). This comic moment, like others that Rosenstiehl extracts from her rigorously pared-down materials, draws us directly into Lilly's emotional world, where attention is routinely paid to everything, from a lowly dandelion on up. To know Lilly is to want to know what she has to say.
Lilly, who is already familiar to children of the author's native France as Mimi Cracra, is Little Lulu with dance lessons. Apple-cheeked and graceful, she s nobody's fool, and her expressive action poses double as telltale clues to the child poised to begin decoding the printed word independently. Rosenstiehl's uncomplicated layouts two panes of equal size per page, four per spread and minimalist backdrops likewise keep the focus where it belongs: on the adventure of taking the measure of everyday things, whether it be a tiny sea creature washed up by a wave or the words I'm flying. Ages 4-up. --Publishers Weekly
Product Description
Lilly is a spunky little girl who delights in the unexpected pleasures of each season, peering inside shells in the summer and tasting different kinds of apples in the fall. In this charming and subtle book by one of France's premier children's book authors, Lilly learns more about the outdoors, and introduces the youngest readers to the colors, words, and shapes that arise in nature. Silly Lilly's intimate monologues deftly capture a child's sense of wonder, in five whimsical episodes that cycle through the calendar from spring back to spring again.
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