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- From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
- Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.233301.17729@athena.mit.edu>
- Keywords: frogs, flights thereof
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Dec23.180850.26863@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <1992Dec23.191329.10077@netcom.com> <1992Dec23.215117.13990@unet.net.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:33:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.215117.13990@unet.net.com> heidi@wales.net.com (Heidi Wolf) writes:
-
- >There's a book about this (she says, ducking warily under the
- >crossed glares of Messrs. Maddox and Mammel): TUESDAY, by a
- >fellow named Wiesner. It's a picture book for children --
- >no text, just a series of watercolor pictures of the nocturnal
- >adventures of a group of frogs who float quietly through the
- >(apparently Midwestern) night air, each on a lilypad. The lack
- >of text seemed to me to add an eerie but enjoyable sense of
- >the silence with which the frogs travel. The final page has
- >a wonderful visual punchline, as the local pigs rise from
- >their pens for their own tour of town.
-
- Yes! a very witty and wordless adventure. It won one of the
- children's book awards this year (Caldecott, Newberry?) for best
- illustrated children's book.
-
- Keith - who wishes everyone Yuletide Froggies.
-
-
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-
- Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
- In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
- preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
-