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Wild Boy (1998) By Mordicai Gerstein, Gareth B. Matthews
Wild Boy (1998) By Mordicai Gerstein, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Once there was a boy who lived alone, without a mother or father or any friends, in a forest in Southern France. He was naked. He didn’t even know what clothes were. He didn’t know he was a boy. He didn’t know what people were. He was wild. When a group of hunters discovered the boy, they delivered him to scientists in Paris, who eventually gave up trying to communicate with him. The boy was taken in by Dr. Itard and his housekeeper, Madame Guerin, who taught him to dress himself, to read and write simple words, and help around …
Great Blueness And Other Predicaments (1968) By Arnold Lobel, Gareth B. Matthews
Great Blueness And Other Predicaments (1968) By Arnold Lobel, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Long ago, there was no color in the world. It was the time of The Great Greyness. Down in the cellar of his house a Wizard mixed up something in a pot and used it to paint the thatched roof of his house. “I call it blue,” he told his neighbors, who begged him to share it. Soon the whole world was blue. It became the time of The Great Blueness. Unfortunately, having blueness everywhere made people sad. So, the Wizard went back down into his cellar and came out with something new .... Philosophy is colorful! Plenty of …
Lulu And The Flying Babies (1988) By Posy Simmonds, Gareth B. Matthews
Lulu And The Flying Babies (1988) By Posy Simmonds, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
It was snowing by the time Lulu’s family arrived at the park, so her parents took them to the museum next door. Lulu sulked and protested: “Don’t want to see the pictures!” so her parents left her sitting on a couch. A winged cherub climbed down from a painting hanging above her and flew Lulu into the winter scene of a Flemish painting, then into other paintings where they splashed in the sea, growled at a tiger, rode a horse, and fell off a cliff. Artists, poets, and writers give us ways of escaping our world, but they also give …
Burglar Bill (1979) By Allan And Janet Ahlberg, Gareth B. Matthews
Burglar Bill (1979) By Allan And Janet Ahlberg, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Burglar Bill lives alone with a house full of stolen property. Every night after supper he goes off to work, stealing things. Every dawn he comes home with his sack full of stolen goods and sits down to his breakfast of stolen toast and marmalade and stolen coffee. Some of my favorite children’s stories are written in a style I call “philosophical whimsy.” In the story of Burglar Bill, the whimsy is aimed at encouraging us to think about the life of a full-time thief as if it were an almost boringly normal sort of middleclass life. The story invites …
Now Everybody Really Hates Me (1993) By Jane Read Martin And Patricia Marx, Gareth B. Matthews
Now Everybody Really Hates Me (1993) By Jane Read Martin And Patricia Marx, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Patty Jane has been confined to her room for misbehaving at her brother’s birthday party. She resolves to stay there for the rest of her life, never cleaning it, even if poisonous mushrooms grow on her bed. She conceives an extravagant scheme for walking her dog without leaving her room, and a more extravagant plan to dig a tunnel so she can pull the plug when her brother takes a bath. Patty Jane is never conciliatory or matter-of-fact. Every threat, every promise is an outrageously imaginative idea. Being under the control of others—her parents—she belongs to the great army of …
Mountains Of Tibet (1989) By Mordecai Gerstein, Maughn B. Gregory
Mountains Of Tibet (1989) By Mordecai Gerstein, Maughn B. Gregory
Picture Books
High in the mountains of Tibet, a little girl was born who loved to fly kites. Mordecai Gerstein’s picture book, inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, tells of the girl’s previous life as a Tibetan woodcutter who loved to fly kites, and the decisions he made after death to choose the circumstances of his next life. The idea of reincarnation belongs to the culture of many parts of the world. Some adults avoid discussing stories like this with children because they don’t want to face the question, ‘But is it really true?’ Children, however, are often more …
Albert’S Impossible Toothache (1974) By Barbara Williams, Gareth B. Matthews
Albert’S Impossible Toothache (1974) By Barbara Williams, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Albert is a turtle, who complains that he has a toothache. Albert’s father is quite unsympathetic. “That’s impossible,” he says; “it is impossible for anyone in our family to have a toothache.” Though Albert’s father does point to his own toothless mouth (does he also point to its toothlessness?) to establish the impossibility of a turtle’s having a toothache, he never actually says to Albert, “To have a toothache you need to have a tooth and turtles don’t have teeth.”
Bee-Man Of Orn (1883/1986) By Frank R. Stockton, Gareth B. Matthews
Bee-Man Of Orn (1883/1986) By Frank R. Stockton, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
In the country of Orn there lived an old man who inhabited a house full of beehives. One day a sorcerer informed the Bee-man that he had been transformed from some other kind of creature and should be changed back. The Bee-man set out on a journey to discover his original form and, after rescuing a baby from a dragon, realized he had been transformed from a baby. The sorcerer made him a baby again, who was raised by the rescued baby’s mother. Many years later, the sorcerer returned to Orn and discovered that the baby had grown up to …
Two Islands (1985) By Ivan Gantschev, Gareth B. Matthews
Two Islands (1985) By Ivan Gantschev, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
This is the story of two islands in the middle of the ocean: Greenel, whose citizens kept it fertile and green, and Graynel, whose citizens covered it with factories and skyscrapers. Citizens of Graynel wanted to vacation on Greenel and proposed to build a bridge between the islands, but the citizens of Greenel refused. Intending to force the bridge, citizens of Graynel stockpiled steel and cement and weapons on one end of the island, eventually causing it to tip on its edge and slide into the sea. While the moral of this modern fable is obvious – overarching human ambition, …
Leese Webster (1979) By Ursula K. Le Guin, Gareth B. Matthews
Leese Webster (1979) By Ursula K. Le Guin, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Leese was a spider, born in a palace throne room. Like other members of the “Webster” family, Leese knew how to spin an elegant and efficient web of traditional design. But then she started to produce webs of original designs like the flowers portrayed in the carpet and the huntsmen and hounds in a painting. Were these images pictures? Many animal species dance, adorn themselves, and build elaborate nests to attract mates. Can they be more and less aesthetically gifted? Authorities had Leese’s webs encased in glass and put on exhibit. Did that change their metaphysical status?
Bear That Wasn't (1946/2010) By Arthur Frank Tashlin, Gareth B. Matthews
Bear That Wasn't (1946/2010) By Arthur Frank Tashlin, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
What happens when a bear wakes from hibernation to find his forest home has been replaced by a human factory? What if the bear can't convince the factory workers, vice presidents, or president that he is, in deed, a bear and shouldn't be put to work in the factory? In reviewing Frank Tashlin's The Bear that Wasn't, Gareth B. Matthews discovers philosophical themes including dreaming and skepticism, being and nonbeing, appearance and reality, and the foundations of knowledge.