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The wonder of Christmas never ceases. Each year the holiday comes and its story seems fresh and new. The ways of telling about the very first Christmas are as many and as varied as the stars in the sky. And so it was for Langston Hughes, who recounted those long-ago events in six different ways -- in live poems he wrote and in one he translated from the Spanish.
In this memorable book, these six poems are simply and movingly illustrated by Ashley Bryan. That Christmas is for everyone -- young and old, black and white, rich and poor -- has never been more clearly shown. Though African American children -- and adults -- will find the book a special one for them, everyone who takes time to enjoy the book will come away with a new understanding of the holiday.
Ashley Bryan has long been known for his interest in and illustration of African American spirituals and poetry. Here he puts his gifts of illustration to work in a way that seems to reflect his dedication to both.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
PreS-Gr 3In this lovely book, Bryan has illustrated Langston Hughes's "Carol of the Brown King," "Shepherd's Song at Christmas," "On a Christmas Night," "On a Pallet of Straw," and "The Christmas Story"plus a translation of a verse from a Puerto Rican Christmas card. The poems are simple and direct, celebrating the first Christmas and the place it holds in lives and hearts today. "Carol of the Brown King" ends with the words, "Three Wise Men,/ One dark like me/Part of His/Nativity." The paintings, rendered in tempera and gouache, are luminous and bright, and add tremendous appeal to the poems. They also extend the intent of the verses to portray Christmas as having meaning for all people, no matter what their race; the Holy Family is depicted as black, as is a young shepherd who comes to offer gifts to Baby Jesus. In one particularly moving painting, the Baby is sleeping on his mother's back, wrapped in a shawl, while Mary looks over her shoulder at readers, cowrie shells in her braided hair. Even very young children will enjoy the short poems and colorful illustrations, and beginning readers will have no problem reading the selections themselves. A gift to enhance any Christmas collection.EM (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
(Preschool, Younger) Nativity scenes of Old Masterly resonance-and a Babe in tears over a lost orange. Six Langston Hughes Christmas poems, unexceptional in themselves, evoke from Ashley Bryan paintings-of the Wise Men, of the Holy Family, of a certain shepherd-that combine traditional icono-graphy and composition with his own African-inflected language of exploding patterns, colors, forms. And something quite marvelous occurs: a conjunction of ten-derness and energy. What was formal and ritualistic in, say, Walter Dean Myers's wonder-working Story of the Three Kingdoms has become intimate-not the play of forms but the relations of people. See the brown king, cradling the Child in his arms; see the Child reach up, half-smiling, to touch the brown king's bearded chin. The Langston Hughes poems, in turn, are simple narratives that, written in stanzas or not, break easily into segments, one for each illustrated page. Illu-minated page, we might say, in acknowledgment of the all-encompassing design. As for the weeping Babe, in an anonymous verse Hughes translated from a Puerto Rican Christmas card, He is restored to happiness on the facing page-full face, as he might have been on that Christmas card-by the gift of an orange. "One for the Child / And one for you." For children of color especially but for all children prospectively, Bryan brings the Nativity home. barbara bader From HORN BOOK, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Six holiday poems highlight the universality of the Christmas season with a special emphasis on African-American influences. Hughes's writings capture the spirit of the nativity story from different vantage points--a ""brown"" king's, a shepherd boy's, the Child's, travelers', etc.--using language that is musical, simple, and ideal for children. Bryan's glowing illustrations incorporate vibrant deep blues and greens to portray an opulent landscape--even the humble stable is bathed in gold. The deliberately childlike feel of the drawings throws into relief the power of the message, that the story of the first Christmas belongs to no one, and to everyone. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 4^-8. This colorful volume presents six short Christmas poems, five written by Langston Hughes and the sixth "translated from a Puerto Rican Christmas card." Hughes focuses on the first Christmas, with verses such as this one from the title poem: "Of the three Wise Men / Who came to the King, / One was a brown man, / so they sing." Indeed, in Bryan's joyful, reverent paintings, nearly every character is brown, from the holy family to the shepherd boy to the modern man and woman reading Christmas stories to their attentive grandchildren. Glowing with bright hues and lively patterns, the large tempera-and-gouache paintings light up every page. A good choice for the many African American children who would like to see their images reflected in the characters of "the greatest story ever told." --Carolyn Phelan