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| Genre/Form: | Children's stories picture books Fiction Juvenile works Picture books Livres d'images Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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| Material Type: | Fiction, Primary school |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nadine Robert; Valerio Vidali; Sarah Klinger |
| ISBN: | 9781592703128 1592703127 |
| OCLC Number: | 1141963505 |
| Notes: | Originally published in French: Varennes, Quebec, Canada : Comme des géants, 2019 under the title L'éléphant de l'ombre. |
| Awards: | Winner of A Financial Times Best Children's Book of 2021 2021 (UK) |
| Target Audience: | Ages 4-10.; Grades 2-3. |
| Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm |
| Other Titles: | Éléphant de l'ombre. |
| Responsibility: | Nadine Robert & Valerio Vidali ; translated from French by Sarah Klinger. |
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The book's uncluttered compositions with tightly framed perspectives and Vidali's sure lines and simple shapes reduce the dramatic action to its essentials. The palette, dominated by velvety, richly colored blues, heightens the book's emotional impact, and the beguiling use of light and shadow establishes a wistful, pensive mood. The story, including its evocative title, can serve as an effective conversation starter on topics such as compassion, melancholy, and what it means to be a friend.A deeply felt, truly empathetic story about the value of sharing burdens with others. -Kirkus Simple, stylistic art provides the background for this elegantly empathic tale. -Publishers Weekly It is a human impulse, this urge to shoo the sadness away. It is also dehumanizing, for only when we let the blues rush in with their full intensity do we become fully alive and awake to the dazzling spectrum of feeling that makes life worth living. That is what Canadian author Nadine Robert and Italian artist Valerio Vidali explore with great subtlety and tenderness in The Shadow Elephant. -Brain Pickings A deep look at sadness and the power of empathy to overcome it. -Waking Brain Cells A Financial Times Best Children's Book of 2021: "This picture book about sadness features an elephant who is blue both literally and figuratively. The contrast between him and his happier animal friends comes through in both the understated text and the richly colored images. Sorrow, we learn, can't always be remedied but can be understood." -Financial Times Read more...
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