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Canizales

Autore di Bruno's Hat

14 opere 84 membri 21 recensioni

Opere di Canizales

Bruno's Hat (2017) 32 copie
Amazona (2022) 26 copie
O melhor livro do mundo (2019) 5 copie
Who Ate My Fruit? (2020) 3 copie
Bonita (2019) 3 copie
Guapa canta (2022) 2 copie
Guay (2017) 1 copia
Who Ate My Cakes? (2020) 1 copia
Ta-dá! 1 copia

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I think kids are smart and can enjoy books where the message isn't so in your face. This needed more showing and less telling about bullying. It has cute illustration though, and it's still an important topic.
 
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KallieGrace | 16 altre recensioni | Jun 21, 2023 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | 16 altre recensioni | Sep 15, 2022 |
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
 
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fernandie | 3 altre recensioni | Sep 15, 2022 |
Amazona was published on May 3, 2022. It is a graphic novel by Canizales that concerns an indigenous group in Colombia. Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to mourn her lost child, carrying a box in her arms. She also comes with another mission. Andrea has hidden a camera upon herself. If she can capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family, it will mark the first step toward legally reclaiming their land.

Amazona is advertised as a socially conscious thriller from graphic novelist Canizales. I wouldn't call it a thriller but it was definately written to get the attention of readers who like socially conscious books. I thought it was a little dull, though. It could have been written as a reportage comic, a la Joe Sacco, but it was written as fiction.

The story shows the indigenous people being taken away from their beautiful rainforest to live in tiny apartments. Andrea's family of 38 people all lived in a one room 600 square foot apartment. The illustrations were done expertly here. We see the apartment in the eyes of an Ikea decorated home. Where you would see an Ikea lamp are 5 people on the floor. In an other part of the home where you might see an Ikea rug, are 8 people lying on the floor. This analogy to Ikea was fantastic. It helped me to see what the real situation was for these indigenous folks. The pages were colored in either reds or graphic pencil. The pages showing Andrea in the rainforest are done in shades of red. The pages showing her in her apartment are done in shades of black. The purpose for the coloring is obvious.

Illustrations aside, the story was not very suspenseful and is definitely not a thriller. I am rating it 3 out of 5 stars.
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Violette62 | 3 altre recensioni | Jul 27, 2022 |

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Opere
14
Utenti
84
Popolarità
#216,911
Voto
½ 3.6
Recensioni
21
ISBN
20
Lingue
4

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