内容説明
This book is aimed at children aged 7 to 9 years. Seven huge, detailed, trifold posters make up this unique depiction of a small village as it changes, over two decades, from a town to a city. Each painting is executed from the same perspective, allowing viewers to easily compare and contrast the different buildings, vehicles, and people in the pictures. The large format of each image immerses viewers in the evolving landscape, serving as a discussion starter about issues from land use to urban planning. Perfect for teachers, this wordless panorama of a vanishing village will awaken concern and inspire reflection about how people live on the land.
From Publishers Weekly
This distinctive work is not a book at all, but an unbound collection of seven meticulously rendered fold-out spreads meant to be viewed successivelyviewed and sighed over. The hero of the story, a pink Victorian house with a mansard roof, stands surrounded by rolling meadows in the German countryside. Cows graze, trees and shrubs blossom, and a farmer tills his field in an image dated "Wednesday, May 6, 1953." Spread by spread, industrial development encroaches as the prominent hues move from gold and green to gray. A train station goes up in the background of the 1956 spread. In the autumn twilight, a bulldozer fells a stand of old trees, making way for two storage tanks (1959). Boys still skate on the pond in 1963, but construction vehicles work behind them, and smokestacks obscure the view of the mountains. By 1969, the house, choked by development, falls to the wrecking ball. In the final spread, all evidence that the house, pond, fields and trees ever existed has vanished. A four-lane highway runs through the center of the spread, surrounded by high-rises, factories and a shiny discount store. Mller's (
The Bear Who Wanted to Be a Bear) wordless murals show progress as a kind of slowly-moving violence whose victims do not speak. Talking about change with children who haven't been around long enough to see it happen is not easy; here Mller offers parents and educators an invaluableif dishearteningresource. All ages.
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