On a gray and crowded city sidewalk, a child discovers a book.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.
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In turn, Valério has created a wordless book that speaks volumes about how art can transform us beyond the sometimes-dreary world of the everyday.
These artists sought to find the spiritual significance in art, with an emphasis on form and color.
In creating this book, Geraldo Valério was inspired by the German Expressionist group known as Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), which formed in Munich in 1911 and included painters Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky.
Thanks to the power of one book, an entire society is transformed.
The child experiences a moment of true joy, and as if in response to that single blissful moment, people seem to come alive in all the other rooms of the apartment block.
That evening, the child begins to read and is immediately carried beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural landscape. -- Publishers Weekly , STARRED REVIEW On a gray and crowded city sidewalk, a child discovers a book. [A] dazzling vision of the way art transcends the everyday.
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Thanks to the power of one book, an entire society is transformed.
That evening, the child begins to read and is immediately carried beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural landscape.
On a gray and crowded city sidewalk, a child discovers a book
