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Where the Girls Are
Girls with unusual hobbies, from Alison to Zelda, introduce the letters of the alphabet
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
56 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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January 30, 2020
The illustrations are mainly white children
April 18, 2020
Depraved and dark, utterly depressing! This can’t be meant for children. Bought at a thrift shop and had to toss it in the garbage.
December 2, 2019
Nikolaus Heidelbach’s 1994 illustrated children’s book Where the Girls Are takes the form of an abecedary, listing 26 girls and their adventures in short subject-verb-object sentences. A true children’s book, it doesn’t hand anything of our known world down to a child. Rather, it offers up a child’s experience of the world, where innumerable signals glide, twist, dance, crash into, and swallow each other freely. The girls in the book negotiate this amorphous terrain with curiosity, pleasure, ingenuity, and cruelty.
Where the Girls Are proved to be a source of fascination for my son as a toddler. The muted magical realism of the illustrations invited a closer look, and the girls’ transgressive acts proposed incredibly imaginative strategies and validated my son’s own realities. The moral ambiguity and unsettling imagery permeating the book show themselves to adults, but seem to slide off the backs of children.
Childhood is a state where the neural circuits are still in flux, all uncommitted connections, where stimuli and responses still routinely wander off course. As Philip Pullman would have it, childhood is a time when our daemons haven’t settled yet. This liquid existence is a terrifying proposition to me, but feels like the most appropriate response to the increasingly psychedelic world we inhabit.
[This review was originally published with the title “Cataloguing Ambiguous Possibility and Terrible Wonder” in the publication La Mise en Livre – The Book as Living Form, Daniel Canty et al., Green College, UBC, La table des matières, 2019]
Where the Girls Are proved to be a source of fascination for my son as a toddler. The muted magical realism of the illustrations invited a closer look, and the girls’ transgressive acts proposed incredibly imaginative strategies and validated my son’s own realities. The moral ambiguity and unsettling imagery permeating the book show themselves to adults, but seem to slide off the backs of children.
Childhood is a state where the neural circuits are still in flux, all uncommitted connections, where stimuli and responses still routinely wander off course. As Philip Pullman would have it, childhood is a time when our daemons haven’t settled yet. This liquid existence is a terrifying proposition to me, but feels like the most appropriate response to the increasingly psychedelic world we inhabit.
[This review was originally published with the title “Cataloguing Ambiguous Possibility and Terrible Wonder” in the publication La Mise en Livre – The Book as Living Form, Daniel Canty et al., Green College, UBC, La table des matières, 2019]
December 10, 2007
A is for alphabet.
B is for bent.
C is for cunts-in-the-making.
D is for danger, Will Robinson!
B is for bent.
C is for cunts-in-the-making.
D is for danger, Will Robinson!
February 7, 2012
Alphabet-book originally not made for children. Almost every picture has a weird twist picturing the little girls the opposite from cute little angels. So refreshing!
November 4, 2012
preso in biblioteca
L'ho preso in bilioteca e non riesco a separarmene...
Ogni illustrazione è un quadro.
Da guardare, riguardare e riguardare ancora.
L'ho preso in bilioteca e non riesco a separarmene...
Ogni illustrazione è un quadro.
Da guardare, riguardare e riguardare ancora.
April 17, 2016
Algo muy depravado, pero la idea general del libro me ha parecido interesante.
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