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Shadow

AUTHOR: Blaise Cendrars
ISBN: 0689718756
SHORT DESCRIPTION: "Shadow lives in the forest . . ./It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires./It even likes to mingle with the dancers". But in the African experience, Shadow is much more, an eerie image that shifts between the beliefs of the present and the...

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Editorial Review

Shadow
- Book Review, by Blaise Cendrars

Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Card catalog description
Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

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Book Review

Shadow
- Book Reviews, by Blaise Cendrars

Shadow

ANNOTATION

Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Here the lore of African stories and storytellers that inspired Cendrars is conveyed by strong use of pure color, by eerie wisps of superimposed images, and by strong silhouettes, all in handsome double-page spreads that are remarkable in their composition."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books. Caldecott Medal; ALA Notable Children's Book.

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