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Monday
This playful and original picture book takes three friends through the days of the week as well as the seasons of the year. Monday is our main character and as we move through the days of the week he becomes smaller and smaller until Sunday when he virtually disappears in a snowstorm. His two freinds go off to look for him. They too move through the days of the week as wel...more
Hardcover, 36 pages
Published
October 1st 2006
by Enchanted Lion Books
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Imagine that each season had a personality. Well, that is exactly what happens in Monday, by Anne Herbauts. Here is a Monday, a curious creature who travels through the days of the week and the four seasons with his friends Lester Day and Tom Morrow. Monday is a friend to the seasons too, spring is green and gustful, summer is golden and content, autumn is wild and confounding, and winter is cold and silent.
From the cutout house on the cover to the textured snow flakes of the page, ...more
From the cutout house on the cover to the textured snow flakes of the page, ...more
This is a very sad book.
As such I am not sure how children would take to it - although children seem to be a lot more resilient to sadness then adults I find. I was reading a book to my 9 year old sister in which the main character lost both of his parents and went to live with a mean stepmother and I was completely depressed and enveloped in empathy - how would I feel if my both my parents died and I had to go live with someone who didn't love me? I was worried that my sister [who is actu...more
As such I am not sure how children would take to it - although children seem to be a lot more resilient to sadness then adults I find. I was reading a book to my 9 year old sister in which the main character lost both of his parents and went to live with a mean stepmother and I was completely depressed and enveloped in empathy - how would I feel if my both my parents died and I had to go live with someone who didn't love me? I was worried that my sister [who is actu...more
Beautifully illustrated, but I think something must be lost in translation here. It starts out as kind of a witty story about a penguin(?) named Monday with his friends, Tom Morrow and Lester Day. Then it goes into a poetic part with all the seasons and Monday is covered in snow so his friends can't find him. He ends up in his house. If it's confusing to a 30-something, how in the world is my 4 yr old supposed to understand it? And how would I explain it to him if he asked?
Abigail
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Described by a friend as very "conceptual," Anne Herbauts' Monday is a poetically-worded picture book, with fascinating illustrations and textured pages that invite young readers to touch... Although a little bit vague on what the actual concept might be (the passage of time, perhaps?), I was so dazzled by the brilliant illustrations that I didn't much care... The author's clever play on words - Monday's two friends are named Lester Day and Tom Morrow - was a nice touch...
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beautiful and non-sensical.
not for everyone. probably not for most children.
not for everyone. probably not for most children.
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but I really couldn't tell what this book was about. The middle part, where the seasons came in and spoke, was nice, especially winter. But the rest didn't make sense to me. I also didn't care for the illustrations, despite the stippling of the white snow on the pages near the end to represent snowflakes. Was Monday supposed to be a penguin or a man with a penguin head? What's with the teapot named Lester Day (yesterday)? If someone can enlighten me, I wis...more
Beautifully illustrated and written. There's a lot going on here that parents will appreciate but they may end up appreciating it more than their children. The allegory is probably far more sophisticated than the picture book audience for which it seems intended.
If Gertrude Stein was writing and painting for children, this might be what she'd come up with. Great, inventive fun. The story gets clunky but is secondary anyway to the fantastic art
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