The Fisherman and His Wife
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399247718 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Brothers Grimm story of the kind fisherman who catches an enchanted fish, and his greedy wife who always wants more, is perfect for these ?give-me? times. Rachel Isadora?s captivating collage-style artwork, featuring the African landscape and the increasingly turbulent ocean, provides a wonderful new backdrop for this classic story.. Caldecott Honor?winning artist Rachel Isadora brings another fabulous fairy tale to brilliant life with her stunning collages
Rachel lives in New York City with her family. All rights reserved. All rights reserved.Rachel Isadora began dancing at the age of eight. Rachel Isadora began dancing at the age of eight. Rachel lives in New York City with her family. She trained at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet and has danced professionally. . Rachel Isadora has illustrated many books set in t
"Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children" according to Yana V. Rodgers. Using an African-themed setting that includes striking fabric designs, Rachel Isadora retells the classic Brothers Grimm tale about a hapless fisherman and his greedy wife. When the fisherman is surprised to catch a talking flounder, he consents to its request for release back to the sea. The wife, upset that her husband came home with no fish to cook for dinner, insisted that he go back and ask the magical fish to grant them a wish.What started out as a reasonable wish to replace their dilapidated and stinky shack with a new . "A Lalapalooza Book" according to Street Guy Professor. What a super interpretation of a classic story. I read this to my son and I really chuckled at Ms. Isadora's humor. My son thought it a great, wacky story and asked how a writer from so long ago wrote such a "real" story. We really got into the pictures and my son wanted to try his hand at collage art work. We cut pictures from magazines and different papers and he made his own beach scene. The book was very creative and blew us away. We will take out some of Ms. Isadore's other books.. Great Old Tale Great old tale with an original and fresh presentation. The story was always one of my favorites and now the illustrations are too! It is about time someone came along and presented the old, standby fairy tales in a new light. Ms Isadora has done it! My hat off to her and the people who published this book. I will check out her others.
From Booklist As she has with previous books, The Princess and the Pea and The Twelve Dancing Princesses (both, 2007), Isadora takes stories from the Brothers Grimm and adapts them for a generically African setting. The fisherman frees a flounder and gets a wish. Then his wife makes him continually up the ante: her new hut must become a castle; then she wants to be king, emperor, pope! The highly patterned collage pictures don’t really capture the scope of her ambitions, which seem more European than African, but their shaped and sculptured beauty is arresting. Preschool-Grade 1. --Ilene Cooper