‘In Antje Damm’s remarkable “The Visitor,” a boy rushes into a lonely woman’s black-and-white 3-D collage world, bringing an explosion of color, light and life.’ - B.C. Damm's The Visitorwas a New York TimesBest Illustrated Book 2018. She has worked as an architect and has published over a dozen children's books. Damm creates a diorama from cardboard and photographs the scenes, giving the illustrations a special luminosity and depth. The unique artwork has a doll's house appeal. Antje Damm is a celebrated children's writer and illustrator. The Visitor is a story about friendship and shyness that plays out in a mini theatre, as a child unwittingly brings light and color-literally-into a lonely person's life. They select the winners purely on the basis of artistic merit. Damm's The Visitorwas a New York TimesBest Illustrated Book 2018. Since 1952, The New York Times considers every illustrated children’s book published that year in the United States. A book in which we are invited to share some time with Elise- a lady so frightened by life, that she is too afraid to venture into the outside world. We are excited to announce that The Visitor has been named a Best Illustrated Book of the Year by The New York Times/The New York Public Library. This is the wonderfully intriguing introduction to this amazing childrens book- The Visitor by Antje Damm.
In the final spread, the colors are bright Elise’s cheeks are rosy and her heart is content.Ī sweet, tender story of a friendship found.The Visitor | 2018 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books
With each page turn, this yellow grows brighter, and when the boy enters her home, so do colors that eventually bloom throughout her small dwelling. In the opening spreads, as Elise sits despondingly at her kitchen table, no color can be found, save for a subtle yellow behind the windows. In her delicate 3-D illustrations, rendered via paper vignettes, Damm uses color to capture the inner life of our introverted protagonist. After his visit, Elise is a changed person, and she even sits down to make her own paper airplane-one sure to serve as an invitation to her new friend.
“It’s fun at your house,” he tells Elise before exiting. The boy stays to play, to hear a story (“It was a long time since Elise had read to anyone”), and to have a snack. The next morning, a young boy named Emil arrives to retrieve his plane, and the spark of a friendship is ignited. With broom in hand, she sweeps the paper airplane into the fire. One day, when her open window allows for the entry of a paper airplane, it frightens her. Likely agoraphobic, she is scared of many things, including people, and she doesn’t leave her compulsively-cleaned home. In this German import, originally published in 2015 by Antje Damm and translated by Sally-Ann Spencer, young readers meet the reclusive Elise.
0 kommentar(er)
