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Little Colin wants to show his beautiful picture to everybody, and doesn't give up until he finds the perfect way.
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出版社周刊评论
The sherbet-toned watercolors are a proper herald of this book's content. Like a tasty frozen confection, Molarsky's (Song of the Empty Bottles) story is appealingly sweet and easily digested but short on nourishment. Colin, an Asian American boy in San Francisco, paints a huge picture and aches to share it with people. He brings it to school, a fire station, a museum and other public places, but no one will hang his work. Finally, when he fashions a mammoth kite out of it, the city and its media, for some reason, take notice; suddenly the museum finds a home for his artwork. Colin's persistence and problem-solving are certainly admirable and the watercolors cheery enough, but the story as a whole comes off as artificial and shallow. The adults' behavior, from their supercilious rejections of Colin's painting to their improbable adulation at the end, points up the one-dimensional quality of the writing. Surely this boy's challenge to adult indifference could have yielded more depth, drama and impact than is delivered here. Ages 5-8. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
A boy paints a large picture and attempts to find a place that will exhibit it. He tries his school, the fire station, a department store, a bank, a church, a freight train yard, and a museum, but everyone has reasons for not hanging his picture. He makes the painting into a huge kite, which attracts the media and makes him famous. The illustrations have a dated look, and the story has minimal appeal. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Colin paints a gigantic picture with his new paints, but can't find a place to hang it. Everyone likes it--people at school, the bank, the fire department, the freight yard, the art museum--but no one wants to display it. After a chain of rejections, he turns it into a kite; it flies for three days and three nights, making him famous and putting his artwork in demand. This fable about freedom of expression follows a reliable formula--a hero on a search--but the litany of disappointments stifles an already predictable story (the title points the way). Stiff language chronicles what turns out to be a guided tour of San Francisco, with Hipshman providing scenic locales. Her realistic watercolors are drafted with personality, but the size of Colin's painting keeps shifting; his zeal is admirable, and his persistence childlike, but the book is never very convincing. (Picture book. 5-8)