Ep 38: May 20, 2006 MIDIs, Sendak + More!
1. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
2. Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth
by Robert Burleigh, Ills by Mike Wimmer
3. To Every Thing There Is a Season
by Ecclesiastes, ills. by Leo & Diane Dillon
4. KittyKam 21
5. Free Fall by David Wiesner
6. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
Ills by Kadir Nelson
3rd Saturday at 4:30 PM : BCAT 35/68
1. "In the Night Kitchen" (1970) by Maurice Sendak
"The child of the story is depicted floating from panel to panel as he drifts through the fantastic dream world of the bakers' kitchen. Sendak's use of multiple panels and integrated hand-lettered text is an interesting contrast to his more traditional children's books like "Where the Wild Things Are."
5. "Free Fall" (1988) by David Wiesner
An experiment in free association which evolved from a ten-foot painting Brooklyn resident Wiesner made at the Rhode Island School of Design as a demonstration of "metamorphosis." It unrolls like a long gigantic frieze as one image melts effortlessly into the next.
2. "Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth" (1998) by R. Burleigh, ills. M. Wimmer
"stunning portrait of the George Herman ("Babe") Ruth legend--and of baseball's innocent glory days.
3. "To Every Thing There Is a Season" (1998) by Ecclesiastes, ills. by the Dillons
Famous verses from Ecclesiastes. Each phrase is illustrated by one of 16 panels, and each panel stems from the artistic style of a different culture, from Egyptian tomb friezes, to Japanese harvest scenes, to Aboriginal bark paintings, to Greek vase paintings.
6. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" (2005) ills. by Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson gives fresh, thought-provoking interpretations to the spiritual that will stir the imagination and spark discussion. "He's got my brothers and my sisters in His hands" depicts the boy, present throughout the book, holding a childlike drawing of people of different races and skin tones, suggesting the notion that all humanity should be viewed as brothers and sisters.
