My Friend the Painter

by Lygia Bojunga Nunes

Book Overview

Este libro relata el conmovedor encuentro entre un ni?o y un artista. Al ni?o, este encuentro lo hace reflexionar sobre los sentimientos y valores que motivan el comportamiento de los hombres. Al... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152563407
• ISBN13: 9780152563400
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

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I thought the book was wonderful. It dealt with suicide in a way that allowed children to read and understand it. It was also interesting to read for a person of my age, and I am a high school senior. I still love the book. I've had it since I was 8 years old. I love it and would recomend it to anyone.

Not just for children

While this is marketed as a book for children, it is a brilliant study in friendship, suicide and art - a book that easily enjoyed by adults as well. The premise is that an eleven year old boy finds his adult friend dead - he hears/has heard from his friends tales of political imprisonment, of a refound first love, and of art. Out of this he tries to sort out the "why" of his "Friend the Artist's" death.This exploration is carried out with brillant images - images of the emotional content of colors, dream images of three people sharing a continuous costume, and the boy's litany of "why's". This exploration has no missteps - it is an excellent piece of writing.