Chip , Brigitte Ventrillon Pierre Mornet, Ed Otherwise, 2001.
From 4 years.
From 4 years.
(the album was reissued last)
Chip frowns. She did not recognize her mother.
Where is her hair so soft, why his eyes are so bad?
chip is very small.
Small as a flea. She slipped on the kitchen tiles, slip on the floor of the entrance, slide out ...
Chip frowns. She did not recognize her mother.
Where is her hair so soft, why his eyes are so bad?
chip is very small.
Small as a flea. She slipped on the kitchen tiles, slip on the floor of the entrance, slide out ...
This story entered the world of the strange, alternating emotions, feelings that are emerging now as a tale to Alice in Wonderland (with, of course, the appearance of little white rabbit), between delicacy and melancholy. Pierre Mornet, the author well known illustrations beautiful album Things that scare (2006), painted - again - silent and troubled women, using acrylic and oil on canvas . These are very long brown hair, similar to the portrait of Mona Lisa (La Gioconda). In this way, there is much beauty in this book.
chip is frightened by his mother who appears sick, depressed, or at least suffering. Appreciate the fact that Brigitte Ventrillon had the delicacy not say anything, letting our imagination a little more yet. Thus, Chip comes to herself, she wonders, she does not understand what is happening, her mother is different ... completely absent.
The design reflects the loneliness, even a kind of anguish. The little girl leaves breathe out. Noises, black, bear, everything is more frightening. What, in this landscape, could provide some comfort that poor child?
Finally, Bullet find a mother recovered from her grief (well, for a time perhaps ...). It's his mom before! It then passes a plan where the mother is lying, inaccessible, on a red background (first page), a happy ending on a white background where the mother is the head chip rests finally (last page).
The design reflects the loneliness, even a kind of anguish. The little girl leaves breathe out. Noises, black, bear, everything is more frightening. What, in this landscape, could provide some comfort that poor child?
Finally, Bullet find a mother recovered from her grief (well, for a time perhaps ...). It's his mom before! It then passes a plan where the mother is lying, inaccessible, on a red background (first page), a happy ending on a white background where the mother is the head chip rests finally (last page).
Brigitte Ventrillon has studied literature and was a teacher before working in children's books. She is now editor, director of the collection Junior League to other editions, and author of albums and documentaries for young people.
Pierre Mornet was born in 1972 in Paris. He studied graphic design at ESAG.
The album previously cited Things that scare , was featured on this blog in October 2009. See the following link:
http://oeildailleurs.blogspot.com/2009/10/quelques-dessins-de-pierre-mornet.html or, for direct access, please click on the title of this post.