Locomotive by Julian Tuwim (2017, Hardcover) Like New
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780500650974
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500650977
ISBN-13
9780500650974
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234157061
Product Key Features
Book Title
Locomotive
Number of Pages
48 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
General, Poetry / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
Book Series
Classics Reissued Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Width
7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Juvenile Audience
Reviews
All three stories and the illustrations are remarkably creative and fun. The impressive translation maintains a seamless poetic rhythm and rhyme and is still relevant 80 years later. Don't be fooled by the old-fashioned vibe, this book smartly holds its own alongside contemporary children's literature.
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
Preschool
Series Volume Number
2
Dewey Decimal
891.8517
Grade To
Fifth Grade
Synopsis
In the late 1930s renowned Polish poet Julian Tuwim, was asked to write three poems for children. The publisher Przeworski connected the three poems into one book, Locomotive, and commissioned illustrations from celebrated Polish illustration duo Lewitt and Him. Locomotive was the beginning of a creative partnership that lasted many years. Featuring the original three poems, Locomotive, The Turnip, and The Bird's Broadcast, children learn what's inside each train carriage as it chugs along, how many people, animals, and friends it takes to pull a turnip from the ground, and what happens when birds of all kinds gather for a meeting in the woods. After its original publication in 1939 in Polish, Locomotive was swiftly translated into French and English the next year, appearing at a time when it would have been a surprise and a joy to encounter bright colors and modernist- inflected imagery. Both classic and modern, its imaginative storytelling and appeal has endured and will delight children today as much as it did eighty years ago., Tuwim's rhythmic poem Locomotive invites us aboard an old steam train as it chuffs and puffs out of the station. As it races along, rattling and clattering past bridges and valleys, we look inside some of the train's many carriages. There's a wagon of bananas, one full of pianos, another is carrying animals off to the zoo, there are giraffes and elephants and bicycles and umbrellas, and a trio of men, all eating sausages. Le Witt and Him's illustrations capture inventively the smoke and the speed and the humorous cargo. Replicating the original edition, this book includes two more short stories - the well-loved folk tale about a turnip so enormous that the farmer can't pull it up and the hilarious story of chatterbox birds who can't agree on anything. Harking back to precedents in Russian children's book-making and looking forward to the Picture Puffins and other hugely successful models in Britain and North America, Locomotive stands out as a beacon of quality and imagination that works its charm on children and parents in the twenty-first century just as much as it did on its first publication eighty years ago.
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