Singing Away the Dark

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ジュリー・モースタッドさんの冬の絵本です。

6歳になった女の子は、冬の朝、スクールバスまで、森の道のりを、ひとりで歩きはじめます。ドキドキするような怖い響きが静かに耳に染み込んでいきます。彼女は怖さを紛らわせるために、歌を歌いながら、はじめて1人で森の中を進んでいくのです。

ジュリー・モースタッドさんが描く子どもは、どこか背伸びをしていて、あとちょっとで大人というぎりぎりのあどけなさが、ほんとに上手い作家です。

Singing Away the Dark
Contributor(s): Woodward, Caroline (Author) , Morstad, Julie (Illustrator)
EAN: 9781772290196
Publisher: Simply Read Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: September 12, 2017
Target Age Group: 04 to 08
Physical Info: 1.02 cms H x 27.94 cms L x 23.62 cms W (0.5 kgs) 44 pages
Carton Quantity: 30

Publisher Marketing:
Now available in a new, jacketed, large format special edition! On a dark winter's morning a little girl has to trudge a mile to catch the school bus. Will she be able to sing her way through the shadows? Lilting rhyming text by Caroline Woodward and stunning paintings by multiple award-winning illustrator Julie Morstad herald an era when singing away the dark was part of a six-year-old's rural school-going routine.
The original edition of Singing Away the Dark (Simply Read Books, 2010) was a finalist for the 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Prize, the 2010-2011 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the 2011 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award (Picture Book category), and the 2011-2012 Chocolate Lily Award (Picture Book category). It was also a 2012 Best Books for Kids and Teens selection by the Canadian Children's Book Centre.