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Jane Chelsea Aragon

Auteur de Salt Hands

4 oeuvres 197 utilisateurs 3 critiques

Œuvres de Jane Chelsea Aragon

Salt Hands (1989) 145 exemplaires
Winter Harvest (1988) 38 exemplaires
Lullaby (1989) 9 exemplaires
The Major and the Mousehole Mice (1990) 5 exemplaires

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An online friend recently recommended Jane Chelsea Aragon's Salt Hands, another picture book featuring the interaction between humans and deer, and having found it deeply satisfying - on both a visual and narrative level - I immediately sought out other books by the author.

Winter Harvest was the only other of Aragon's titles I could find at my public library. Published the year before Salt Hands, it features a young girl who, together with her father, feeds a family of deer during the hard winter months. The simple narrative, when paired with Leslie Baker's beautiful watercolor illustrations, makes for a lovely, quiet bedtime story. The cool winter scenes have a luminous quality that communicates the shadowy mystery of nighttime in the woods, just as the warmer indoor scenes convey a sense of security and family love. Recommended to anyone who likes animal-story picture books, or who enjoyed Salt Hands.… (plus d'informations)
 
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AbigailAdams26 | Jul 5, 2013 |
The human longing for a sense of connection to nature and to our animal cousins is poignantly evoked by Jane Chelsea Aragon's simple story of a young girl who awakens one night to discover a majestic deer in her yard. Filling her hands with salt and singing a soft song, she waits... She waits for him to accept her gift.

The author's spare prose (shorter than this review), demonstrates the skill of a talented picture book author, who knows how to tell a story with the minimum number of words. The gentle illustrations by Ted Rand amplify the power of the story, its dreamlike quality, its sense of breathless wonder. The head-on picture of the deer, found toward the end of the book, is especially powerful. Thank you Lisa, for bringing this to my attention!… (plus d'informations)
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AbigailAdams26 | 1 autre critique | Jul 3, 2013 |
This is a story about a girl who sees a deer in her yard.
 
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bradleykimbrell | 1 autre critique | Apr 8, 2009 |

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Œuvres
4
Membres
197
Popularité
#111,410
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
3
ISBN
8

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