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Extra Yarn

캐나다

그림작가 존 클라센(Jon Klassen)
글작가 맥 바넷 (Mac Barnett)
출판사 하퍼콜린스 (HarperCollins)
페이지
40 쪽
발행일
2012-01-17
수상내역
2013 칼테콧상 Honer Book

책 내용

From bestselling and award-winning author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen comes Extra Yarn, a Caldecott Honor Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, and a New York Times bestseller.

A young girl and her box of magical yarn transform a community in this stunning picture book. With spare, gently humorous illustrations and a palette that moves from black-and-white to a range of color, this modern fairy tale has the feel of a new classic.

Fans of Oliver Jeffers and Peter Brown will love this book.

출판사 보도자료

Amazon.com Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month for Kids, January 2012: A monochrome town gets a change of color and attitude with the help of a box of yarn and a girl named Annabelle. From the seemingly endless box of Extra Yarn Annabelle knits clothing for everyone around her, tempering the ill-tempered, and creating beautifully patterned warmth for people, animals, and objects, alike. When a greedy clothes-loving archduke tries to buy--then steal--the box for himself, he discovers that ill-gotten gains bear no fruit--or in this case, yarn. Mac Barnett’s elegant and clever story is complemented by Jon Klassen’s illustrations, and fans of I Want My Hat Back will enjoy the familiar faces that show up in this picture book about the magical properties of kindness and generosity.--Seira Wilson

From Booklist

*Starred Review* This understated picture book is certain to spark the imagination of every child who comes upon it, and what could be better than that? Annabelle lives in a black-and-white world, where everything is drab, drab, drab. So imagine her surprise when she finds a box filled with yarn of every color. Armed with the yarn and knitting needles, she makes herself a sweater, but after she finishes, she finds that she has extra yarn left over. After knitting a sweater for her dog, her classmates, and various (hilariously unsurprised) bunnies and bears, she still has extra yarn. So, Annabelle turns her attention to things that don’t usually wear wool cozies: houses and cars and mailboxes. Soon an evil archduke with a sinister mustache “who was very fond of clothes” hears about the magic box of never-ending yarn, and he wants it for his own. Reading like a droll fairy tale, this Barnett-Klassen collaboration is both seamless and magical. The spare, elegant text and art are also infused with plenty of deadpan humor. Klassen (I Want My Hat Back, 2011) uses ink, gouache, and digital illustration to fashion Annabelle’s world out of geometric shapes, set against dark, saturated pages, and against white as the town comes to colorful, stitched life. Quirky and wonderful, this story quietly celebrates a child’s ingenuity and her ability to change the world around her. Grades K-2. --Ann Kelley

Review

“There’s nothing to say but―perfect.” — Lane Smith, New York Times bestselling author of It's a Book

“Understated illustrations and prose seamlessly construct an enchanting and mysterious tale.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Klassen’s deadpan, stylized illustrations impeccably complement Barnett’s quirky droll writing.” — School Library Journal (starred review)

“Klassen’s pacing, especially the mostly wordless sequence when the box floats back to Annabelle on a triangle of an iceberg, is impeccable. The final spread, all light and yarn-covered tree limbs, brings Barnett’s clever, quiet yarn full circle, to a little girl and a town, now colorful and happy.” — Horn Book (starred review)

“Reading like a droll fairy tale, this Barnett-Klassen collaboration is both seamless and magical. The spare, elegant text and art are also infused with plenty of deadpan humor. Quirky and wonderful, this story quietly celebrates a child’s ingenuity and her ability to change the world around her.” — Booklist (starred review)

From the Back Cover

Extra Yarn, winner of a Caldecott Honor and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, as well as a New York Times bestseller, is the story of how a young girl and her box of magical yarn transform a community.

This much-loved picture book is written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen, who also won the Caldecott Medal for This Is Not My Hat.

일러스트레이터 소개

존 클라센(Jon Klassen)

인스타 : https://www.instagram.com/jonklassen

캐나다 출신의 작가이자 일러스트레이터입니다. 그는 직접 쓰고 그린 그림책 세 권을 출간했으며, 다른 작가들의 작품에도 그림을 그렸습니다. 그의 대표작으로는 《내 모자 돌려줘》(I Want My Hat Back), 《이건 내 모자가 아니야》(This Is Not My Hat), 《모자를 찾았어》(We Found A Hat) 등이 있습니다. 그가 그림을 그린 작품 중 가장 유명한 것은 맥 바넷의 《샘과 데이브가 구멍을 파다》(Sam & Dave Dig A Hole), 레모니 스니켓의 《어둠》(The Dark), 그리고 최근작인 맥 바넷의 《늑대, 오리, 그리고 쥐》(The Wolf, The Duck & The Mouse)입니다. 그의 작품들은 칼데콧상 메달과 칼데콧 명예상 두 개를 비롯한 여러 국제적인 상을 수상했습니다. 그는 아내와 아들과 함께 캘리포니아주 로스앤젤레스에 살고 있습니다.