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Shadow
by
Suzy Lee
A dark attic. A light bulb. An imaginative little girl.
Internationally acclaimed artist Suzy Lee uses these simple elements to create a visual tour de force that perfectly captures the joy of creative play and celebrates the power of imagination. Stunning in their simplicity, Lee's illustrations, in just two shades of color, present an adventure that begins and ends with t...more
Internationally acclaimed artist Suzy Lee uses these simple elements to create a visual tour de force that perfectly captures the joy of creative play and celebrates the power of imagination. Stunning in their simplicity, Lee's illustrations, in just two shades of color, present an adventure that begins and ends with t...more
Hardcover, 44 pages
Published
September 1st 2010
by Chronicle Books
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Audience: ages 4-8, children who like to play make-believe, tactile learners (since the book is interactive, in a way), and those not afraid to be a little scared
Appeal: This is an imaginative story about playing make-believe with shadows. The books is written to be read from a "sideways" perspective, you can turn it this way and that to show the different stories that weave in together. The girl in the story has quite an active imagination; she can turn ordinary objects into extraordina...more
Audience: ages 4-8, children who like to play make-believe, tactile learners (since the book is interactive, in a way), and those not afraid to be a little scared
Appeal: This is an imaginative story about playing make-believe with shadows. The books is written to be read from a "sideways" perspective, you can turn it this way and that to show the different stories that weave in together. The girl in the story has quite an active imagination; she can turn ordinary objects into extraordina...more
“Shadow” illustrated by Suzy Lee is an interesting and unique wordless book. The story consists of a little girl who lets her imagination run wild with the shadows that are created by objects found in her dark attic when she turns on a small light. The objects, such as a vacuum, ladder, and broom, become an elephant, trees and flowers, and the little girl becomes a princess ballerina. Then, she is called for dinner and turns off the light, and her imaginative story becomes dark. However, in the...more
The book illustrations are black and white, with yellow thrown into a few pictures to help differentiate different parts of the story. The picture were alright, not spectacular, but children might enjoy them because they are so simple and they can relate to how they are drawn.
This is the story of a little girl that is having fun in the attic, she is using her imagination to create this wondrous world around her. You begin with a young girl in an attic with all of this junk surrounding her, slow...more
This is the story of a little girl that is having fun in the attic, she is using her imagination to create this wondrous world around her. You begin with a young girl in an attic with all of this junk surrounding her, slow...more
Dec 04, 2012
Ed
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Lee, Suzy. (2010). Shadow. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. 44 pp. ISBN 978-0-8118-7280-5 (Hard Cover); $15.99.
Wordless books often do not receive much attention or respect. Younger students (or their famiies) want chapter books with words to show off emerging decoding and reading skills. Older students often consider the whole picture book market to beneath their ability and, consequently, something of an insult. However, when a book as creative as this one comes along, it needs to be brough...more
Wordless books often do not receive much attention or respect. Younger students (or their famiies) want chapter books with words to show off emerging decoding and reading skills. Older students often consider the whole picture book market to beneath their ability and, consequently, something of an insult. However, when a book as creative as this one comes along, it needs to be brough...more
Shadow is a nearly wordless, artistic book, or it is a work of art with a few words in it.
The story focuses on a little girl playing with the shadows in her garage. In the two page layout, one page is the solid world and the other page is the shadow world. At first, the objects in the garage cast only their static shadows, but then the girl makes a shadow-bird with her hands, which leads to the creation of a shadow jungle with shadow creatures. The reader watches the girl in the garage pretendi...more
The story focuses on a little girl playing with the shadows in her garage. In the two page layout, one page is the solid world and the other page is the shadow world. At first, the objects in the garage cast only their static shadows, but then the girl makes a shadow-bird with her hands, which leads to the creation of a shadow jungle with shadow creatures. The reader watches the girl in the garage pretendi...more
Shadow is a stunning nearly wordless book. The story is about a young girl who plays make-believe in her garage. On the left hand page you see the girl and her surroundings drawn in black and white with charcoal and pencil. On the right hand page are the shadows of the girl and the objects. At first the shadows are merely mirror images of their solid partners. But then the girl makes a butterfly with her hands and the butterfly glows into life on the shadow page. Soon the shadows are transformed...more
• Shadow is a most unique and charming book.
• This wordless book tells a large story.
• The absence of words allows for a great use of imagination.
• Beautifully illustrated in only three colors, this book is truly a work of art.
• This would make a beautiful gift for many different ages, including design and art loving adults.
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Shadow is a beautiful work of art that allows imaginations to soar, children and adults alike. An almost entirely wordless boo...more
• This wordless book tells a large story.
• The absence of words allows for a great use of imagination.
• Beautifully illustrated in only three colors, this book is truly a work of art.
• This would make a beautiful gift for many different ages, including design and art loving adults.
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Shadow is a beautiful work of art that allows imaginations to soar, children and adults alike. An almost entirely wordless boo...more
Jan 25, 2011
Mark
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Parents with little children
Shelves:
children-youngadults
In Shadow, Suzy Lee, a South Korean illustrator, depicts a little girl playing in her family’s attic. From the very beginning, Lee’s story knows that it is in a printed book. The orientation of the drawings invites the reader to turn the book on its side so that the pages flip bottom to top rather than right to left.
Lee is a natural at drawing children. Her pictures evoke a timeless charm. The girl’s expressions and poses are those of a child, not those of an adult shrunken in size.
More impress...more
Lee is a natural at drawing children. Her pictures evoke a timeless charm. The girl’s expressions and poses are those of a child, not those of an adult shrunken in size.
More impress...more
In 2008, Suzy Lee came out with a wonderful wordless picture book entitled WAVE, which I adored. And this year, Ms. Lee has a brand-new picture book that is mostly wordless. (The word "CLICK" appears twice, and the sentence "Dinner's Ready!" is in there.)
It is one of those weird books that opens top to bottom instead of left to right, which makes each page wider than it is tall. On the top half of each spread is a little girl in the real-world attic (I thought it was a garage, but the flap copy...more
It is one of those weird books that opens top to bottom instead of left to right, which makes each page wider than it is tall. On the top half of each spread is a little girl in the real-world attic (I thought it was a garage, but the flap copy...more
I love this book! It starts out with a girl in her garage or basement and you see all of the junk, plus the shadow of the junk reflected below it. The story begins and progresses side by side on both pages.
The girl makes a shadow puppet of a bird, which comes alive and flies away on the shadow page. Suddenly, the broom and garden tools disappear from reality and transform into a tall flower. A sun and moon appear. With each new shadow, objects shift and transform in the shadow world. A big bad w...more
The girl makes a shadow puppet of a bird, which comes alive and flies away on the shadow page. Suddenly, the broom and garden tools disappear from reality and transform into a tall flower. A sun and moon appear. With each new shadow, objects shift and transform in the shadow world. A big bad w...more
1. { Genre }: Wordless
2. { Summary }: Click. An imaginative young girl and her light bulb explore the limitless shapes of shadow dancing.
3a. { Area for comment }: Composition
3b. { Critique }:
The composition is Shadows best feature. It forces the reader to find the origination of each shadow and analyze it’s destination.
3c. { Critique Example }:
The composition of Shadows is introduced as soon as the reader opens the book. It opens bottom to top instead of left to right. The pages are much long...more
Grades Pre-K to 2. A girl's bedroom becomes a world of imagination in this wordless picture book. The black and white illustrations glimmer with yellow to indicate the girl's perception. Very creative and fun to read. Put this on your 2011 Caldecott short list! (except the author wasn't born and doesn't live in the USA-- so we can take it off the list. DARN!)
This wordless book by Suzy Lee is a great book for students to use to interpret illustrations. This book does not have any words in it, pictures only so students must interpret what is being told through these pictures. Lee uses the colors black, yellow and white for every picture but each illustration is detailed and beautiful. Just by looking at the pictures you can tell that this is a story about a little girl that uses a single light bulb, objects and her imagination to create play and adven...more
Jan 28, 2011
Lisa Vegan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fans of Lee’s Wave & Mirror; fans of books showing children using their imaginations
Recommended to Lisa by:
Kathryn
I am really enjoying Suzy Lee's picture books. The pictures (these books are wordless or almost wordless) tell the stories, stories of a child imaginatively playing with everyday things, in her previous books, a Mirror and Waves, and now Shadows.
This book was more lighthearted than Mirror though not as joyous as Wave. I remember playing with all 3 of these things as a child and Lee captures well how a child plays and how a child thinks, and moves.
The illustrations are good, all in yellow and bl...more
This book was more lighthearted than Mirror though not as joyous as Wave. I remember playing with all 3 of these things as a child and Lee captures well how a child plays and how a child thinks, and moves.
The illustrations are good, all in yellow and bl...more
From the creator of the award-winning Wave comes a stunning new book. In Shadow, Lee utilizes the gutter to create two worlds- the real one and that of shadows. Using the objects she finds around her, a little girl creates worlds and characters with the shadows she casts. But as her creations become more intricate, the shadows begin to take on a life of their own.
This book is practically wordless and incredibly designed. I wonder at the stories children might weave about each page as each shadow...more
This book is practically wordless and incredibly designed. I wonder at the stories children might weave about each page as each shadow...more
The production of the book with pages turning from bottom to top along the horizontal seam is a great setup for this book where we join a little girl playing in the attic or garage. The shadows cast by the light bulb we never see transforms the world of items into a living stage, where the girl's play and imagination set in motion a world of characters and landscape. The few words in this book have an almost-auditory quality, while the slow, almost-imperceptible introduction of color quickly bec...more
In this book, the little girl ventures into the attic (the flap tells us that it takes place in an attic, but I would have thought it looks more like a garage) and turns the light on. The little girl starts to play with the shadows she can make. Then, before she knows it, the shadows begin to play on their own. An adventure that only a great wordless picture book can create then unfolds.
***Disclaimer: This is one of those wordless picture books that is really wonderful, but not for the average p...more
***Disclaimer: This is one of those wordless picture books that is really wonderful, but not for the average p...more
A clever, imaginative wordless book that makes use of the gutter. One side is used for the real world, the other side of the gutter is the shadow world used for a child's imaginative adventures. At the beginning the shadows are accurately reflected. However, when the child makes a shadow puppet, in the shadow world it is highlighted by yellow and portrayed as a bird. In the succeeding pages shadows change to create a jungle setting for the child's adventures. The child and shadows cross the gutt...more
In this wordless book, a girl is playing in her attic. As she explores the objects, she notices their shadows created by the ceiling light. Like any child, she wiggles her fingers to create her own shadows, and the shadows become the focus of her play. The hose becomes a snake, the ladder, trees, and, as she puts a shoe on her head, a wolf appears. The central binding of the book is the line between reality and shadow, or is it?
A wonderful and engaging book to read close up with children. An ex...more
A wonderful and engaging book to read close up with children. An ex...more
I'd love to spend ten minutes inside Suzy Lee's head.
My sister gave me this book for Christmas. It's a lovely little book with fun images and a lot of imagination. I also like how you read the book sideways. The illustrations are a nice combination of conte crayon drawings and stenciled images. The only inks used the whole book were black and yellow, which added to the unique feel of the book. (The book's story is of a girl who lets her imagination run wild in a basement and and shadows thrown on the floor come alive.)
This wordless picture book is very unique. It is about a little girl that is in her attic (or someplace where you store things). It starts out all black and white. The little girl soon discovers that she can make shadows. The illustrations start to have a little yellow in them. The different things that she makes shadows with, remind her of different scenarios and possible stories that could be told with them. By the end of the book, it is all yellow and black.
Shadow by Suzy Lee is a wordless picture book about a girl on a jungle adventure in her junk filled garage. She makes the jungle come alive with plants and animals through her shadow play.
Lurking in the shadows, though, is a mischievous wolf. What starts as a dance with him and the girl (as he is created from her shadow) becomes something more sinister.
Although there are no words, there is so much tucked away in the black, white and yellow illustrations to warrant a second or third read. I've re...more
Lurking in the shadows, though, is a mischievous wolf. What starts as a dance with him and the girl (as he is created from her shadow) becomes something more sinister.
Although there are no words, there is so much tucked away in the black, white and yellow illustrations to warrant a second or third read. I've re...more
Nearly wordless, this story is all about shadows taking shape in a little girl's mind and creating this whole "Where the Wild Things Are"-like world. I love the shape and spreads, with the left-hand page showing the girl in her garage (attic?) and the right-hand page showing the shadow world. Could be used in a science unit on light and shadows, combined with "Guess Again" by Mac Barnett and Adam Rex for extra silly fun.
This wordless picture book is magical. the mostly black and white pictures of a young girl playing in a basement or attic invite the creation of an imaginative plot by the reader. The girl creates a world of shadows that takes on a life of their own. this book is enjoyable for young children (my 3 yr old has requested it every night, and won't let me read it only once) but could be equally as interesting to an older reader who might enjoy making up different plot lines and telling the story thro...more
May 30, 2011
Philip
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A charming child's picture book, essentially; the nearly wordless tale of a girl in an attic and what her imagination does to the shadows cast by the jumble of gear up there. Slight, but with nice art, a little bit of entertaining meta-confusion over foreground and background, and imaginative use of vertically oriented facing page layouts.
Energetic, original and highly innovative. Suzy Lee delves into the mind of an imaginative girl playing with ordinary objects around the house, and through her eyes the mundane transforms into the marvellous. It captures the essence of childhood innocence when imagination makes the world turn.
Imagination abounds in this wordless tale. Creative kids who know the wonders of finding images and patterns in the shadows that everyday objects cast will relish this book...and those who don't yet might find their fears of shadows dissipating and a sense of wonder growing as the lights wane.
Shadow is an amazing tribute to the power of imagination -Suzy Lee's, the main character's and children everywhere. Innovative format, suprising wordless story, great illustrations...
Could we all chip in for moving expenses to get Suzy Lee to move to the US and be eligible for a Caldecott?
Could we all chip in for moving expenses to get Suzy Lee to move to the US and be eligible for a Caldecott?
In a unique horizontal format, a wordless story is told as a little girl sees shadows in her closet. This really up-ends the way a book is "read" and brings it closer to something else...animation, perhaps? Definitely an author to watch, as her "Wave" book was equally cool.
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Suzy Lee is an artist and illustrator, born in Seoul, Korea. She received her BFA in painting from Seoul National University and her MA in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Arts, London. Her books and paintings have won numerous international awards and have been featured in exhibitions worldwide.
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