{"product_id":"jemmy-button-isbn-9780763664879","title":"Jemmy Button","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful collaboration based on a true story.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali discovered a mutual interest in this story and overcame language obstacles with the help of translators. Jemmy Button, a native of Tierra del Fuego, was brought to England in the mid-1800s to be “educated and civilized.” The book illustrates Jemmy’s adventures in England, his extraordinary encounters, his homesickness and experiences as an outsider in a strange land, and his return home.Less a biography than an attempt to represent this alienating experience from Jemmy’s point of view, it is distinguished by lyrical prose-poetry...and intensely creative and beautifully conceived paintings.\u003cbr\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe powerful, spare text contrasts Jemmy’s innocent island life with the isolation he feels in England. His alienation is cleverly reinforced by gauche, oil and collage illustrations using flat patterns and color to compare the island’s verdant vegetation and quiet, starry nights with the sterile, geometric shapes of urban London...The ultimate home-away-home story, beautifully rendered.\u003cbr\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the cover where he peeks out through lush greenery, to the vast visions of the night sky over the island, illustrations of Orundellico’s home pop with color. The scenes in England, in contrast, feature muted tones, with people who appear only as silhouettes, emphasizing the boy’s sense of displacement. This treatment brings the story home for young readers and provides an excellent discussion-starter.\u003cbr\u003e—School Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story is told in an ingenuous style that is powerfully enhanced by the impressionistic art, replete with obscured adult figures and a melancholy tone. An unusual read-aloud is also a complex, unique offering for independent readers.\u003cbr\u003e—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e... a stunning picture-book collaboration between its illustrators, Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali, and its writer, Alix Barzelay. ... In a striking series of tableaux, we see the boy, very small and red, against jungle and sea; later he is surrounded by hard urban surfaces and engulfed in crowds of men in swallowtail coats and women in full-skirted finery.\u003cbr\u003e—The Wall Street Journal\u003cb\u003eJennifer Uman\u003c\/b\u003e is a self-taught painter and illustrator. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and in publications throughout the world. This is her first illustrated book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eValerio Vidali \u003c\/b\u003eis an Italian illustrator. His work has been published in several countries and has received notable recognition in competitions and exhibitions arround the world","brand":"Templar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302430167269,"sku":"NP9780763664879","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780763664879.jpg?v=1767730377","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/jemmy-button-isbn-9780763664879","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}