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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Biographical fiction Fiction Juvenile works Picture books Juvenile fiction |
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Named Person: | Flannery O'Connor; Flannery O'Connor; Flannery O'Connor |
Material Type: | Biography, Fiction, Primary school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Amy Alznauer; Ping Zhu, (Illustrator) |
ISBN: | 9781592702954 1592702953 |
OCLC Number: | 1119481708 |
Description: | 54 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 32 cm |
Responsibility: | Amy Alznauer & Ping Zhu. |
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Like O'Connor, this gangly art object of a book tracing her first forays as a writer to an outsize fascination with the chickens in her childhood backyard is a "strange bird," in the most wondrous of ways. "There was something about strangeness," a young O'Connor realized after her trained bantam drew fame, "that made people sit up and look." Alznauer pairs a grounded, authentic vernacular with a lyricism that takes flight, while Zhu's depiction of odd human proportions against brilliant brushstroke plumage stuns. -The New York Times Like the best children's books, Alznauer's words recognize the cleverness of their audience; they never condescend or talk down. Zhu's work reminds us that illustrations shouldn't flatten the world either. Fluent in the grammar of both abstract and representational art, her work is full of dimension and color, symmetry and asymmetry, life and breath. The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor holds potential enough to inspire its youngest readers, and to stoke the smoldering embers of curiosity in its oldest. -Plough "This picture-book biography, beginning in Flannery O'Connor's childhood and ending with her untimely death, shines a light on her love of strangeness. With its memorable opening line, "Right from the start young Flannery took a shine to chickens," the book celebrates her fascination with life's peculiarities-and death. The exaggerated scale and off-kilter perspectives of Zhu's illustrations align with the book's focus on eccentricity...The thoughtful design-at 12 inches square, as outsized as its subject-includes a type chosen because its designer, like O'Connor, had a love for drawing birds. A striking, quirky ode to a unique vision." -Kirkus Reviews Read more...


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