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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fishermen Through and Throughdi Colleen Sydor
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Peter, Santiago and Ahab are fishermen through and through. The sea is the place where they spend their lives. Still, they have dreams of other places and when the sea is gentle the fishermen talk of those fantasies -- of sand dunes and camels, of hot-air balloons high up in the clouds, of fields full of rainbow-colored tulips. On one of those dreamy days the fishermen make an extra special catch -- a lobster as white as the clouds of Santiago's daydreams. Never before have they seen anything this extraordinary and beautiful! Surely this is a catch that should be shared with all! When word of the special lobster makes its way to photographers, marine biologists and reporters they all come to the village to see for themselves and share the story with their followers. Peter, Santiago and Ahab are eventually offered money for the lobster! As if such an extraordinary creature was theirs to sell!! The final offer is for more money than any of them could have ever imagined -- a sum that would allow them to achieve their life dreams. But the fisherman realize it is impossible to imagine their life without the water and the sound of the seagulls overhead -- and they need to return their special catch back to the freedom of its own watery world. The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design, Honorable Mention: Children's Category 2016 Blue Spruce Award nominee Storytelling World Awards: Stories for Pre-Adolescent Listeners winner Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999VotoMedia:
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While the men are happy enough with life on the sea, they each have a longing to go other places. Peter would like to ride atop a camel in a vast sea of sand. Santiago would like to fly like his seagull friends in a sea of clouds—viewing the ocean from a hot-air balloon. Ahab would like something entirely different: to stand in a sea of multi-coloured Dutch tulips.
One day the ocean offers them something wondrous, something that might allow them to pursue their dreams: a large albino lobster. Recognizing beauty when they see it, the men decide that rather than tossing it back, they’ll bring it to shore—alive—for others to marvel at.The lobster ends up being transferred from a bucket to its own glass aquarium in the village’s local diner, The Fishermen’s Net. From there, word of the unusual creature travels, attracting the attention of biologists, photographers, and even a man from Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The fishermen become almost famous; they’re endlessly interviewed over a period of three days.
Then the offer of money comes—a large sum that would allow each fisherman the chance to pursue his particular dream. But is the lobster even theirs to sell? The offer is doubled, then tripled. What will Peter, Santiago, and Ahab do? Where do their values lie? Sydor provides a satisfying conclusion after giving her characters a night to sleep on it.
This is an attractive Canadian picture book, which appeared on a children’s choice literary award list a few years back. The illustrator favours shades of muted blue, green, and warm beige. The ocean breeze is suggested in almost every image of the outdoors. (Strangely, though, Ahab’s tasseled night cap remains absolute still—as though it’s as heavy as he is!) With its lively and rollicking language, the book would be useful for teachers to introduce different kinds of figurative language—similes, metaphors, alliteration, and idioms—to students. Having said that, I feel that the author’s word choice is occasionally a little cutesy and over the top: “the sun got snoozey”; “Peter listened to the distant thrum of waves kissing the shore”.
The book inadvertently raises some interesting questions, however. No one in the book considers eating the white lobster, but surely any number of more regular looking ones are boiled to death at The Fishermen’s Net. What makes one animal beautiful, worthy, and precious, while others go into the cooking pot? This is a kid’s book, of course, and the question of eating other lobsters isn’t raised . . . but still. Many kids are familiar with lobsters. They see them in grocery stores where the creatures swim about in large tanks. I have to say it can be uncomfortable looking their way. For them, unlike Sydor’s “lily white” rarity, the writing is on the wall. ( )