Summer Garmann of , Stian Hole, Ed Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2008. From 5 years.
Translated from Norwegian by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud.
is the end of summer, the three old aunts arrive as each year with their arthritis and their meringue pie. Tomorrow will come Garmann CP. He is afraid. But he made the incredible discovery: the adults are afraid!
Sometimes it seems hard to talk about an album when it seems you simply must! How to account for this work and its author without betraying its history? As usual, I can only stick with brief descriptions and you try to portray this set, according to my interpretation.
First, we must know that Summer of Garmann translated into over 10 languages received the "Best Album Award at the prestigious International Fair of Bologna and the Price Witches 2009 . Then you can discover The street Garmann (edited also in 2008) which follows the first volume. These two books present a wonderful job of photomontage, mixed with sweet and bucolic illustrations, full page or double page. "Our" book is born of the observation of the eldest son of the author and the fear of the unknown ... beginning of a beautiful adventure with Garmann, poetry, humor and tenderness. is the end of the holidays, the boy prepares for her new life as a "big" school. His old aunts, visiting family, taking from him. Come the famous questions: " What you want to be when you grow up?" "And what does it feel to return to CP ... ?" Impossible for him to send off her "butterfly" in the belly (superbly imaged here) because it is very distressed at the idea of going to elementary school! However, he soon discovered that it is not the only one who fears or to ask existential questions. With her aunt Ruth, both will greatly amused by this situation. In fact, Garmann is not safe to be really ready to change everything. He has noticed that her friends - they - are better at reading and writing to him ... The evidence also that he is not ready for these things: he has not lost all his teeth while his aunts have their dentures! Garmann suddenly realizes that her aunts are still very very old. Are they going to die soon? Are the elderly were children? Stung by curiosity, he wants to discover their fears. And he will be surprised to learn some things ... In the end, we discover that the mother, also a little afraid of the return of Garmann. Specifically, she worried when her son crosses the highway while going to school with all those cars ...
Stian Hole born in 1969, is an author and illustrator of Norwegian nationality. He graduated from the National School of Graphic Arts and Design in Oslo.
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