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The Boys

par Jeff Newman

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A shy boy, seeking the courage to play baseball with the other children in a park, is coaxed out of his shell by some "old timers" sitting nearby who, in turn, discover they are still in the game.
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IB Attitudes: Commitment, Confidence, Enthusiasm, Independence, Cooperation, Creativity. IB Learner Profile: Thinker, Open-minded, Caring, Risk-takers, Reflective.
  margothere.library | Aug 8, 2015 |
Good wordless story, creative, good message. The illustrations told the story well. ( )
  dukefan86 | May 29, 2013 |
This subtle wordless story won't be for everyone, but for the perfect reader it's the perfect book! A little boy, new to the neighborhood, can't bring himself to ask to join in with the other kids playing baseball. So he joins "the boys", a quartet of elderly gentlemen on a park bench. As each day passes, he blends in more and more...until the boys decide something must be done. Each picture is full of details that tell a delightfully funny and heartwarming story. It's not just about sticking with your own generation though - by the story's end, the little boy has new friends, the kids in the park have a great new player...and "the boys" have become an enthusiastic audience. Charming, unique, and exquisite.
  JeanLittleLibrary | Jan 30, 2011 |
The Boys offers a fantastic set of illustrations depicting a young boy that is to shy to play with the other kids. He eventually takes notice of a group of elderly gentlemen that hang out at the park and begins to emulate them. Through his growing friendship with them he eventually gains the confidence to play with the children his own age .
  nathanmannn | Apr 19, 2010 |
On Monday the new kid moves to town. On Tuesday he sets out to the park with his bat and ball to mingle with the kids of his new neighborhood but can't bring himself to join in. He shuffles over to a park bench full of a quartet of old men who don't quite understand what's up with the kid. On Wednesday the kid goes back to the park to feed the pigeons on the bench with the old boys who feel a little awkward that the kid has adopted them as his social group. Then on Thursday the kid arrives wearing obnoxious plaid retiree pants and his hair slicked back and the old boys realize it's time to get this kid back on track. Suddenly the kid is the grumpy old man on the bench yelling at the obnoxious old guys who are chasing the pigeons away on their bikes and making a ruckus at the playground. In the end it is a game of baseball that integrates the kid with his peers and gives the old men someplace else to sit than the park bench.

That all of this is done without words is a good part of its charm. The mood on these pages is easily readable at a glance, very much character driven and clearly understandable. This ability to portray emotions and tell stories with simple illustrations is key for younger readers to understand how to "read" pictures. This is a key value in wordless picture books because being able to decode the language of illustrations and illustrated stories is as necessary as sight reading. It also happens to be the element I find lacking in a lot of graphic novels put out by publishers of children's books, but that's a rant for another day.

Newman's style of watercolor - the broad brush strokes that suggest more than they define, the bold swaths of muted color - would almost fit in with the style of the independent cartoons produced by the UPA in the 40s and 50s; cartoons like Gerald McBoing Boing. Almost, not quite. I think there are times Newman's brush is a little too large in the scene and distracting from the more controlled character work, but it isn't a deal killer. ( )
  delzey | Apr 5, 2010 |
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