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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jun 2, 2020 21:32:17 GMT -5
I think presenting Lemony Snicket's literature to young children and getting laughs and good feedback would be worrying. The little I read of Lemony's books for very young children made me feel that young children would feel what I feel when I am in a museum of modern art ... It is difficult to explain the sensation, but it is rarely a purely pleasant feeling. But it is not a purely bad feeling. It is a unique sensation, however, that reminds me of things I saw there for a long time. I will exemplify this with the Composer is dead. Right in the first lines there is a rhyme with the word Decomposition. There is an image that shows a fly referring to the word Decomposition and the word death. Some children still have a very strong imagination, which literally makes them imagine the things they hear in a way that they have an experience very close to reality. So, imagining a dead body decomposing with flies around it is striking. But I wouldn't say it's a bad thing to make a very small child think about it. It is a bitter experience, but art must make us taste bitter too ... And I think that is very positive.
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Post by Reba on Jun 3, 2020 4:43:16 GMT -5
jean lucio, you should look into one of these more recent books... you may be surprised how different they are from anything like The Composer is Dead.
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Post by Marlowe on Jun 6, 2020 19:21:35 GMT -5
I got around to reading that Richard Sala story Terry Craig posted a few days ago. It confounded me somewhat, but it made me want to read an entire comic written by Handler, if nothing else. BTW, Optimism is my Phil-osophy , the music for The Composer is Dead can be found here, along with the pages of the book itself:
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Post by Reba on Jun 10, 2020 6:54:24 GMT -5
I have to say I don't get the hubbub around Jon Klassen. I find his art style awfully boring. if u think this is boring i don't want to know u
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jun 10, 2020 15:52:39 GMT -5
Ok, this is not boring. But I'm still not impressed with the character designs. Why doesn't he use more of this non-cleaned up style? I've only seen his work in The Dark and parts of I Want My Hat Back (and its sequel) to have made my judgement.
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Post by Reba on Jun 10, 2020 19:48:23 GMT -5
The Wolf, The Duck, And The Mouse is admittedly a bit of an exception in its chaotic energy. but the beauty of the colors and textures in his "cleaned up" style is the same, i think. even his most absolute minimalist work, the Shape Trilogy, i find exciting for how the few textures we do get just stand out all the more. da waterfall is my favorite
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