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Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman Charles Vess 2009

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Author: Neil GaimanFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens BooksEdition: 1
ISBN-10: 0060838086ISBN-13: 9780060838089
Publication Year: 2009Subject: Picture Books
Age Level: --Topic: --
Language: EnglishSpecial Attributes: Illustrated, 1st Edition
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Neil Gaiman shifts from his traditional dark mood to a sunny, bouncy coda calling forth a wonderful, varied life for a little girl as she grows up. With a rhyming text, Gaiman calls on ladies of all kinds to help the baby find her way through life, to find joy and survive sorrow, and to explore everything with delight. Accompanied by light, lively illustrations.
Rhyming text expresses a prayer for a girl to be protected from such dangers as nightmares at age three or false friends at fifteen, and to be granted clearness of sight and other favors.

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Illustrator:Charles Vess

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Length:32 pages
Height:10.3 in.
Width:10.3 in.
Thickness:0.2 in.
Weight:14.4 oz.

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The wonderful joy of growing up is captured in this charming tale about a baby girl who grows up to be a woman--carrying with her the memories and love she has experienced in her youth.


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 3rd print. Pages clean and new, looks unread, no marks, tears or creases, dust jacket very good with a hint of edgewear.

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In a magical blessing for unconventional girls, Gaiman (The Graveyard Book) addresses the ladies of light and ladies of darkness and ladies of never-you-mind, asking them to shelter and guide an infant girl as she grows. Help her to help herself,/ help her to stand,/ help her to lose and to find./ Teach her we're only as big as our dreams./ Show her that fortune is blind. Sinuous, rococo lines—the flowing hair, drooping boughs, winding paths that inspired the pre-Raphaelites—spread their tendrils throughout Vess's (The Ladies of Grace Adieu) full-bleed spreads, potent mixtures of the charms of Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish and Cecily Barker's flower fairies. An Art Nouveau–ish font in a blueberry color compounds the sense of fantasy. On each page a different girl—short, tall, white, brown, younger, older—runs or jumps or swims, accompanied by animals meant to guard and protect her. Fans of Gaiman and Vess will pounce on this creation; so too will readers who seek for their daughters affirmation that sidesteps traditional spiritual conventions. All ages. (Mar.)
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PreS Up—Gaiman and Vess worked together on Stardust (HarperCollins, 2000), the award-winning fantasy that became a film in 2007. One can count on them for a fresh approach to the conventions of a genre. This New Age "prayer" for a yet-to-be-born child is no exception, although the combination of a picture-book format with concepts that require adult understanding may cause confusion or boredom in youngsters ("Keep her from…./Nightmares at three or bad husbands at thirty,/…. Dull days at forty, false friends at fifteen-"). Visually, the book also struggles with a split personality. One scene, in which animals peer at a girl in jeans and dreadlocks, is rendered in watercolor, defined by clean outlines, for a contemporary, realistic look. Another view of naked babies sleeping in flower petals is created with a hazy focus, calling to mind Jessie Willcox Smith or Elsa Beskow's Peter in Blueberry Land (Floris, 1988). The dedication indicates that this poem was written for a pregnant friend; it seeks to ward off all sorts of fairy-tale trouble: "Ladies of light and ladies of darkness and ladies of never-you-mind…. Keep her from spindles and sleeps at sixteen/Let her stay waking and wise." The "ladies" are draped in clouds and cloaks, sunsets and rainbows. The racial characteristics, hair color, and age of the girl change from page to page, presumably for an "everygirl" effect. This may resonate with people purchasing baby presents, as Seuss's Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Random, 1990) strikes a chord at graduation. The card, however, should read "Mother."—Wendy Lukehart, Washington DC Public Library
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