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K-Gr 3—Aurelio is a young artist with big eyes, a fedora, and, most importantly, a vivid imagination. In ink renderings on pages that maintain interest by alternating between black on white and the perception of the reverse, the boy contrasts the sense of being small—evoked when he sees rich and famous people—with the power he wields with his pen. The "Dali" headline on the book jacket's folded newspaper boat foreshadows playful bits of surrealism, e.g., an elephant in a teacup, a man who lo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

“There are rich people who own jewels and houses and pieces of the sky… / Sometimes I feel small when I see those rich and famous people. But then I remember I have my pen.” The pages that follow show the narrator’s attempts to lift himself up through his art: he creates precise black-and-white drawings of fantastical scenes -- an elephant hiding in a teacup, a chest x-r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"Sometimes I feel small...then I remember I have my pen." The narrator lifts himself up through his art, creating precise, fantasti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More