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You're invited to a birthday party! It's Benjamin's birthday. The present Morris brings to give Benjamin is what Morris would like to get himself, and he refuses to hand it over. But Morris can't have fun at a party while he's holding on to a package. The longer he holds it, the bigger it seems to get. It grows into one enormous nuisance, and the only way to get rid of it is to open it up. Morris's present turns out to be something marvelous for everyone to do. With the colorful Morris and the beautiful and funny pictures, Lore Segal and Boris Kulikov have made a birthday party that young readers will want to come to again and again.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
K-Gr 4-Morris can only see what he wants for himself when his mother takes him shopping for a present for a friend, so he selects a set of paints and heads off to Benjamin's party. After the other children give the birthday boy his gifts, Morris finds that he cannot, after all, part with the paints. But the package gets larger and larger as Morris holds it, preventing him from taking part in the festivities. Finally, when the box is about to crush him, and the other children are playing with Benjamin's new toys, Morris opens the gift and begins to paint a large self-portrait. Suddenly all the children want to participate, and they do, creating large and lovely pictures of the toys they have brought, and then painting one another. This simple and realistic tale is made fantastical by Kulikov's bizarrely sophisticated paintings. These otherwise normal children dress like old-fashioned grown-ups; have huge, mature heads; and tiny limbs- they look like puppets. Birds with human heads flit about, paint appears and disappears, and objects grow and shrink in this mad and delightful world of creative play. Youngsters will enjoy the story, take the odd perspectives in stride, and maybe even learn a thing or two about friendship and generosity. Huge fun.-Susan Oliver, Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System, FL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
With empathy and imagination, this tale explores the sometimes angst-filled arena of children's birthday parties. An opening scene reveals young Morris so immersed in the picture he is painting that he does not want to go to his friend Benjamin's party. Any child can relate to the situation Segal (Tell Me a Mitzi) maps out next: after Morris chooses a present, he longs to keep the birthday boy's gift for himself. At Benjamin's party, Morris holds the blue-ribboned gift box in a death grip. Emphasizing the psychological aspects of the situation, Kulikov, in an impressive debut, portrays the box literally growing to enormous proportions, inhibiting Morris from eating his cake and playing with his friends. Finally, the boy relinquishes the burdensome gift and, after initial disappointment (" `It's only paints,' said Leah. `Paints we get in school,' said Rosie"), the party-goers join Morris in a gleeful painting spree, indicated by blobs and splatters scattered across the pages. "There was umber and sepia and olive and emerald. There was rose madder and viridian..." Kulikov's extraordinary paintings would fit right into a Roald Dahl tale. An off-kilter, funhouse feeling pervades the full-spread compositions, and the children (dressed in vintage knickers, sailor suits and bonnets) sport big heads atop bodies tapering into tiny feet, and eyes with the unsettling fixed gaze of marionettes. He softens this delectably mad style with an autumnal palette of mossy greens, apricots and cocoa, and a sincere undercurrent of compassion for the artist-protagonist. Ages 4-8. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
In an amusingly rendered scenario, Morris brings a present that he wants to keep for himself--a box of paints--to his friend Benjamin's birthday party, then refuses to give it up. Caricatured, slightly surreal art shows the wrapped package growing larger and more ungainly in Morris's grasp until he hands it over to Benjamin and proceeds to convince the dubious partygoers of the gift's merits. From HORN BOOK Spring 2004, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Morris is an artist; he doesn't want to attend Benjamin's birthday party, but his mother insists. He refuses to relinquish his gift, clutching it with both arms, preventing his fork from reaching the cake on the table or playing ball. So, he opens the present himself--a box of paints, naturally. He paints a portrait of himself; Harry, Leah, and Rosie each paint a picture; then they paint each other. Morris paints the "two yellowest suns ever seen" on Benjamin's knees. The imaginative mixed-media illustrations transform the spartan text into an inventive, child-like scenario. Details like Morris's oversized brown hat that he always wears, human-headed birds in the background, the size of the present that gets bigger and bigger until it's opened, and playful perspectives add to the capriciousness of the artwork along with exaggerated body proportions of large heads and tiny-footed, bright-eyed children. Kulikov's experience as a set and costume designer contribute to the theatricality of his creative style that is enhanced by his brightly hued palette. A fascinating debut. (Picture book. 4-7) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
PreS-Gr. 2. Young Morris loves to paint. So it's no surprise that, when forced to shop for his friend Benjamin's birthday present, he chooses a bright paint box. At the party, Morris won't give Benjamin the treasured present. As the guests move on to cake and games, the ribbon-tied box becomes a growing burden to Morris, who finally opens the present himself and delights the other guests with an afternoon of wild painting. Segal's clipped, brisk text has some abrupt transitions, including the ending. But the situations--a child's reluctance to hand over gifts; the quick reversals as a guest transforms from outsider to instigator--are universal. It's Kulikov's ochre-tone paintings that are really noteworthy here. In an odd, fantastical world of skewed proportions, Morris' present grows so large that it nearly crushes him--making his burdensome feelings and anxieties literal and palpable. And then there's Morris the artist, fully realized in a rakish, oversize hat and flowing scarves. An unusual, visually stimulating story about the dynamics of children's play and letting creativity loose. --Gillian Engberg Copyright 2003 Booklist