The World That Loved Books Paperback – Picture Book, October 24, 2018 by Stephen Parlato

Description

Author: Parlato Stephen

Brand: Simply Read Books

Edition: Reprint

Format: Picture Book

Package Dimensions: 7x292x230

Number Of Pages: 32

Release Date: 24-10-2018

Details: Product Description
Stephen Parlato’s picture book of colorful, intricate collages is now available in paperback! The hardcover edition of
The World That Loved Books was a finalist for the
ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year Award in the Children’s Picture Book category.

In a world where all creatures read, marvelous transformations occur. Cats reading about mice become mice. Horses reading about fish become fish. Even a rhinoceros that reads about butterflies becomes butterflies. This beautiful, uniquely illustrated fable about how books can change us in marvelous and unexpected ways has captured the imaginations of many children and adults around the world.
Review
Praise for the hardcover edition of
The World That Loved Books:

“A bizarre and thoroughly enjoyable exercise inspired by the 16th-century Italian artist Archimbolodo. Archimbolodo made faces out of fruits and vegetables; Parlato takes it all one step further. The pictures are fabulous collages on stark white backgrounds, with the multiplicity of images forming the picture.”
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Kirkus Reviews

PBS Recommended Picture Book! “Parlato has created strange and wonderful collage portraits in the manner of 16th century Italian painter Giuseppe Archimboldo. This would be a good starter for a unit on collage or portraiture.”
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PBS TeacherSource

“Children and adult readers will delight in spending time looking over the illustrations and discovering the many figures used into the collages. This book is a piece of art but will appeal to all.”
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Resource Links, Antonia Gisler

“Celebrates both the human imagination and the beauty of the natural world, and particularly the power of reading to transform us in magical ways.”
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Quill & Quire

““In our embrace of realism, we have forgotten the rush of an imagination let loose to gallop. This is why
The World That Loved Books is so delicious. Each of Stephen Parlato’s 15 double-page spreads glories in the full-color impossibility of something being something else: a man’s head comprising dozens of snakes, his “ear” actually an open jaw; a leaping rabbit with a many-turtled body and a sea-turtle butt; a weighty rhinoceros filled with the flutter of butterflies.”
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Georgia Straight, John Burns

“Stephen Parlato’s imaginative
The World That Loved Books is page upon page of stunning collages, an obvious homage to Arcimboldo, the Italian master famous for his portraits of people composed of fruits, vegetables, fish and whatever else suited his fancy. Parlato makes fanciful portraits of people, cats, horses and dragons from photographic images, such as an incredible image of a horse made up entirely of snake and lizard pictures. Children will revel in the intense detail of these constructions.”
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Star Tribune, L.K. Hanson

“Highly recommended. Readers, both young and old, could pore over Parlato’s detailed collage illustrations for hours as each viewing seems to reveal something new. Art teachers, even in high school, will want a copy to use as an example of how collages can be created from found print materials, and language arts teachers across the grades will also appreciate the title for its ability to concretize one of the benefits of reading. A “must-buy.”
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CM Magazine
About the Author
Stephen Parlato, originally from Levittown, Long Island, New York, resides and works in his studio in Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of both The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture and The Maryland Institute’s Hoffberger School of Graduate Painting he is considered one of the foremost collage artists working today. Parlato is the author/illustrator of the picture books Dragons Love (Simply Read Books, 2009) and The World That Loved Books (Simply Read Books, 2008). Find out more at www.stephenparlato.com.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
From
The World That Loved Books, by Stephen Parlato:

“There once was a world where everyone loved books, even the animals