A beautiful collaboration based on a true story.Exchanged for the single mother-of-pearl button that gave him his nickname, an indigenous Tierra del Fuegan boy named Orundellico

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Jemmy Button

A beautiful collaboration based on a true story.

Exchanged for the single mother-of-pearl button that gave him his nickname, an indigenous Tierra del Fuegan boy named Orundellico spent many years in England in the early 1800s as part of a failed experiment in forced civilization. Less a biography than an attempt to represent this alienating experience from Jemmy's point of view, it is distinguished by lyrical prose-poetry ("Come away with us and taste our language, see the lights of our world," the British explorers tell Jemmy) and intensely creative and beautifully conceived paintings. On matte pages, Jemmy, a paper-doll figure with red ochre skin and curly black hair, walks naked through throngs of top-hatted and gowned silhouettes, all the same shade of blue. His guardians buy him clothes and take him to concerts, but the paintings show him always set apart from his companions. "Jemmy felt almost at home. Almost, but not quite." As a snapshot of colonial betrayal, it evokes regret, longing, guilt, and awe--an assortment of feelings that might make the book more attractive to grownups than to children. - Publishers Weekly
Country USA
Brand Templar
Manufacturer Templar
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Green
ReleaseDate 2013-03-26
UnitCount 1
Format Picture Book
EANs 9780763664879

Country	USA
Brand	Templar
Manufacturer	Templar
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Green
ReleaseDate	2013-03-26
UnitCount	1
Format	Picture Book
EANs	9780763664879

Jemmy Button

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