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Silent Days, Silent Dreams

By Allen Say

Release : 2017-10-31

Genre : Biographies for Kids, Books, Kids, Fiction for Kids, Social Issues in Kids Fiction, Arts & Entertainment for Kids, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults, Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults, Biographies for Young Adults, Arts & Entertainment for Young Adults

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Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say brings his lavish illustrations and hybrid narrative and artistic styles to the story of artist James Castle.James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language.Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened "James Castle: A Retrospective" in 2008. The 2013 Venice Biennale included eleven works by Castle in the feature exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace." And his reputation continues to grow.Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say, author of the acclaimed memoir Drawing from Memory, takes readers through an imagined look at Castle's childhood, allows them to experience his emergence as an artist despite the overwhelming difficulties he faced, and ultimately reveals the triumphs that he would go on toachieve.

Silent Days, Silent Dreams

By Allen Say

Release : 2017-10-31

Genre : Biographies for Kids, Books, Kids, Fiction for Kids, Social Issues in Kids Fiction, Arts & Entertainment for Kids, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults, Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults, Biographies for Young Adults, Arts & Entertainment for Young Adults

Kind : ebook

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Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say brings his lavish illustrations and hybrid narrative and artistic styles to the story of artist James Castle.James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language.Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened "James Castle: A Retrospective" in 2008. The 2013 Venice Biennale included eleven works by Castle in the feature exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace." And his reputation continues to grow.Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say, author of the acclaimed memoir Drawing from Memory, takes readers through an imagined look at Castle's childhood, allows them to experience his emergence as an artist despite the overwhelming difficulties he faced, and ultimately reveals the triumphs that he would go on toachieve.

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