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Illustrated by Gregory Christie A fictionalised account to the early life of African-American writer Richard Wright which tells the story of how he was taught to read and discovered an interest in books and libraries. An interest greatly hampered by the segregation laws of the American southern states which prevented black people from borrowing library books. Illustrated throughout in full colour. Ages 3 - 9.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 2-5In Memphis in the 1920s, public library borrowing privileges did not extend to blacks. Yet, 17-year-old Richard Wright's hunger to read inspires him to take a dangerous risk. He borrows the library card of a white co-worker and goes to the library with a forged note requesting permission to check out books for the man. The librarian treats him with suspicion, until Richard claims to be illiterate. This final act of self-deprecation elicits laughs from the librarian and other patrons. While the author's note acknowledges that this story is based on a scene from Wright's autobiography Black Boy, Miller takes significant liberties with the fictionalization. A comparison with the original shows that although the librarian questioned the note, she did not laugh at Richard. The harsh portrayal is reinforced through Christie's impressionistic illustrations done in acrylic and colored pencil. While this book is written in a straightforward, easily comprehensible manner, titles such as Marie Bradby's More Than Anything Else (Orchard, 1995) and Robert Coles's The Story of Ruby Bridges (Scholastic, 1995) describe a love of learning hindered by racism in a more inspiring way.Jackie Hechtkopf, Talent House School, Fairfax, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Miller's (Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree) narrative fictionalizes a pivotal incident recounted in Richard Wright's 1945 autobiography, Black Boy. Born into a poor family that moved often, Richard longs for books but has little access to them: "the doors of the library were shut against him because he was black." As a teenager, he finds a job in an optician's shop that he hopes will be his "ticket to freedom" by enabling him to earn enough money to move north. Then he hatches a plan to borrow books from the library: he pretends to be checking them out for a sympathetic white co-worker who has lent Richard his card. Richard spends the night reading Dickens, Tolstoy and Stephen Crane ("reading about people who had suffered as he had, even though their skin was white"); afterward, Miller concludes, "Richard knew he would never be the same again." The tale closes abruptly, as Richard rides a northbound train, thinking about the books he has read; Miller leaves it to an endnote to mention Wright's success as a writer. Spanning each full spread, Christie's (The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children) acrylic and colored pencil art uses sunless color and heavy brush strokes to set the mood. Though neither text nor pictures are as compelling as the issues they address, the volume offers a trenchant comment on American history and is bound to open the eyes of children who take their privileges for granted. Ages 4-up. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
In a fictionalized episode from a scene in 'Black Boy', Wright's autobiography, the seventeen-year-old African American is barred from the library. Not enough information is provided in the story to make this a useful introduction to the noted literary figure; though helpful, a brief author's note about Wright's life is tucked away at the back of the book. The illustrations competently portray Wright's growth and maturing. From HORN BOOK 1997, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
An episode from the autobiography of Richard Wright is skillfully fictionalized, resulting in a suspenseful and gratifying story about the power of reading. Growing up in the South in the 1920s, Wright was eager to learn to read, but barred from using libraries because of his race. When he was 17, he went alone to Memphis, where he convinced a white man, Jim Falk, to lend him his library card (so that he could check out books by pretending to get them for Falk). There is a perceptible sense of danger as the librarian (a caricature) quizzes him, and triumph when a whole new world is opened to Wright, who is shown reading all night. While background details are softened and ""colored boy"" is the worst epithet in the book, the book is true to the essence of the events described. Christie's illustrations complement the text; he concentrates on the characters' faces and allows other details to remain less distinct. Readers see Wright's expression change, from when he is alone and most himself, to when he must put on a mask to be safe, to avoid confronting white people. A challenging endeavor, and an accomplished one. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 5^-9. Like Miller's Zora Neale Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree (1996), this picture book is based on a true episode in the life of a great African American writer. Miller focuses his story on the stirring final chapters of Wright's autobiography Black Boy (1945), in which he describes his struggle to get books from the whites-only library in Memphis. Christie's powerful impressionistic paintings in acrylic and colored pencil show the harsh racism in the Jim Crow South, where the young man has to act subservient, in the library and in the office where he works, pretending that he is borrowing the books for his white boss. There are also strong portraits of Wright reading avidly through the night, lost in the world of books. At first he reads in secret, then he dares to bring his books to the office, and finally, he is on a train to Chicago, remembering the books he has read about all kinds of people who suffered as he did and who longed for the same freedom. Words and pictures express the young man's loneliness and confinement and, then, the power he found in books. --Hazel Rochman