Then, with the shocking arbitrariness of the rhyme, he suggests they “knock him on the head.” The child covers his face in terror. He does not want you to follow him so you've been blocked. feed: rss 2.0, 无论是一部作品、一个人，还是一件事，都往往可以衍生出许多不同的话题。将这些话题细分出来，分别进行讨论，会有更多收获。, We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, © 2005－2020 douban.com, all rights reserved 北京豆网科技有限公司. Even the title has a double meaning: Either there are the two nursery rhymes, “We Are All in the Dumps,” and “Jack and Guy”; or it is saying, “We, along with Jack and Guy, live in the dumps.” In order for us to understand how remarkably Sendak’s picture book transforms these seemingly innocuous verses, I give their text first (in the version recorded by Iona and Peter Opie in “The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book,” only slightly different from Sendak’s): IN THE DUMPS We are all in the dumps, For diamonds are trumps, The kittens are gone to St. Paul’s. Sendak might have ended his story with the boys and the kittens saved and sleeping in peace on the moon. With illustrative panache, Sendak shows us only a portion of the bridge players’ hands before (next page) Rat 1 springs the 10 of diamonds (trumps) on us, and Rat 2 makes off with the child. In the guise of a children’s picture book, it is a work of extraordinary complexity structured around two traditional nursery rhymes. & The homeless children and kittens are watched over by the moon, which seems to insist that the youngsters take care of one another. On the next page, sitting on a table proclaiming “Free bread today!” Jack and Guy feed the child, and the great white cat lies protectively over a great huddle of kittens who are smiling and yawning and stretching contentedly. Item #20069 First Edition. Illustrated throughout with color paintings by Maurice Sendak. They first brush him off. 17, 1992. | California’s November election will feature 12 statewide ballot measures. Jeff Kinney Describes and critiques Maurice Sendak's newest book, "We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy," which includes nursery rhymes and pictures. In so doing, his visual images invite readers to become co-conspirators in the creation of the tale. This book is an exhortation to humankind, a cry to heaven for justice. For us children; for the book. In his latest book, “We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy,” Sendak is more serious, perhaps less introspective, than he has ever been. Meaner Times. In the second part, Jack and Guy, who have earlier ignored the waif's pleas for help, follow after: "Come says Jack/Let's knock him on the head/No says Guy/Let's buy him some bread..." There's much more going on in the extraordinary art, including allusions visual (Trump Tower, a Cheshire cat moon that maternally enfolds the kittens) and verbal (in dialogue balloons and newsprint that also serves as shelter). “We are all in the dumps with Jack and Guy: Two nursery rhymes with pictures by Maurice Sendak.” Children's Literature in Education , 1994, 25 , 29–40. GENERAL MYSTERY & DETECTIVE As the cast of dismayed waifs watches, the rats haul off the child in a wagon full of kittens; the child breaks away, reaching again to the other children for help. Kid Elected President.”, And the child taken down from the moon and resting at the end in pieta-like sleep-death in Jack’s arms comes full circle. 87 Accesses. The book’s cover is baffling at first, for the title does not appear on the front but on the back cover; but this will become clear later. Largely through his own fault, mishaps seem to plague Greg at every turn, from the minor freak-outs of finding himself permanently seated in class between two pierced stoners and then being saddled with his mom for a substitute teacher, to being forced to wrestle in gym with a weird classmate who has invited him to view his “secret freckle.” Presented in a mix of legible “hand-lettered” text and lots of simple cartoon illustrations with the punch lines often in dialogue balloons, Greg’s escapades, unwavering self-interest and sardonic commentary are a hoot and a half—certain to elicit both gales of giggles and winces of sympathy (not to mention recognition) from young readers. Maurice Sendak Greg’s mom calls a family meeting to determine what to do with their share, proposing home improvements and then overruling the family’s cartoonish wish lists and instead pushing for an addition to the kitchen. Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry Jack and Guy have met their test. Lucky children have seen homelessness, and worse, only on TV; the unlucky have lived it. She slips and falls in a pool of wine on her kitchen floor she’s sure she didn’t spill herself. 4to, publisher’s original beige boards lettered in brown on the spine, textured endpapers, and in the color dustjacket by Sendak. Come, says Jack, Let’s knock him on the head. RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2007, First volume of a planned three, this edited version of an ongoing online serial records a middle-school everykid’s triumphs and (more often) tribulations through the course of a school year. If there are more than one, separate with commas ",", Title: We are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, Author: | Just when it seems that the Heffleys really will move, a new sequence of chaotic trouble and property destruction heralds a return to the status quo. But on the wordless spread that follows, Jack lifts the child down from the moon in a scene we recognize immediately as a deposition--the traditional depiction of Christ being taken down from the cross. by Even worse, her attempts to recover her lost memory lead to an excruciatingly paced series of revelations. The main character throughout is a little black child, pictured naked except for a torn white cloth, howling in misery on the first page as we open the book. On one newspaper page we see the words: “Oct. How to vote. Jeff Kinney With 33 candidates vying for four at-large seats on the seven-member Los Angeles Community College District board, the well-being and academic success of the state’s neediest college students are at stake. Dear Mili's exquisitely detailed paintings give way here to the freely drawn, more immediate style of I Saw Esau (1992); but the subtle orchestration of Sendak's ideas has never been more intricate, telling, or playful. Then, observing the disposition of the printed text and the intervals of illustration in the text-less spreads, one may be amazed that Sendak has made so much of these words. What issues are on the ballot in California and Los Angeles County. The baby is bit, the moon’s in a fit And the houses are built without walls. But the newspapers in which the children are clothed lend themselves, with slight ambiguity, to happier interpretation: “Homeless Shelters. There are no words. From the dust jacket's ragged and newspaper-wrapped children, depicted within a monstrous mouth that readers will discover is the moon, to the very last page, one must search for clues to bring meaning to the enigmatic text. In the guise of a children’s picture book, it is a work of extraordinary complexity structured around two traditional nursery rhymes. From the dust jack... rade 2 Up-Sendak is back, bolder than ever, as he looks out to the problems of today's world. Guy, however, counter-suggests that they “buy him some bread.” In the next spread, the boys come upon a monstrous white cat. He combines two little-known and unrelated nursery rhymes, taking advantage of their absence of story to interpret them with a wealth of detail and social commentary. Peter F. Neumeyer 1 Children's Literature in Education volume 25, pages 29 – 40 (1994)Cite this article.