Tales of the Sisters Kane

By Christy Kane

Book Overview

Artist and storyteller Christy Kane creates life size, one-of-a-kind, handmade dolls then photographs them in antique settings to illustrate her original stories of social misfits. She is a triple... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977894940
• ISBN13: 9780977894949
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Baby Tattoo Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 6.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Unique and engaging classics in our own time!

The multi-talented author, Christy Kane, has created beautifully original stories featuring the dolls that she also created. The stories revolve around the Sisters Kane who learn very valuable lessons through their own mistakes, which are life-lessons for modern day children. I'll even say adults. The dolls are amazingly captured in black and white photography, which in itself stands alone. Coupled with the wonderful poetry, Ms. Kane has given us a treasure of stories that will surely become classics.

Taking me back to Milne

When A.A. Milne died, and took his smirk-rhyming poetry with him, the world lost Pooh's creator and one of the best animators of poetic fun ever to whisper to the children of the world. He's back, though using a young woman as his medium. And though she can put meter and rhyme to work in a style similar to Milne's, Christy Kane sidles off in a direction a bit south of One Hundred Acre Wood. In "Tales of the Sisters Kane", Christy Kane uses some dark poetic images and even darker photographhic images of her "doll daughters" to teach all of us about the unfair things that can happen to people. The poetry and the short stories gently remind us that life just isn't always fair and good, but if we respect others and try to see through their sufferings, that we are all the same, and all beautiful. Easy to read, tart with a little of the Goth acid, this is a message for moms, dads and all the children in between.

AMAZING!

This book offers the reader a bird's eye view of harrowing life experiences as seen through the eyes of dolls whose names are as charming as their tales. It is one of the most whimsical, engaging books I have ever read.

Refreshingly Unique book!

I honestly do not think that there is another book out there like this. Not only are the tales unique to the author but she designs, creates and photographs the incredible dolls in this book! It is written and photographed along the lines of humor one may find in a Monty Python movie. Yet the tales are unique and wonder of wonder in this day of feel good books, there are consequences to bad choices :-). To add to its slightly macabre charm are the amazing photographs of the author's creativeness. I found that my teenagers thought this the coolest book around. Think of the original Grimm fairy tales to decide what younger ages would enjoy this book. It is not Barney but then again, it is refreshingly NOT some TV sitcom with smart mouthed kids on it controlling impotent parents! All in all, a unique contribution to the world of literature and art by a single artist!

loved this book!

i pre orderd this book in augost, and it was very much worth the wait!I loved falling into the very precocious and vivid lives of the sisters kane. christy kane paints a world of whimsical and mischeves stories that you will want to read over and over again!! i cannot wait for the next book, and the diabolical yet endearing adventures the sisters get into next! this is a must read..