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A modern fable about nature's power, from the Greenaway Medal winner and creator of "Black Dog". When Mr Barleycorn picks a green baby growing in his garden, he lets loose the incredible power of nature as courgettes flower in the kitchen and carrots sprout from the TV. The greenling has to go: but the bounty and beauty of nature also has the power to bring a whole community together.
A propos de l'auteur
Levi Pinfold has worked as an author and illustrator since graduating from University College Falmouth. He paints with watercolour and gouache, creating imagery from imagination and memory. His debut book, The Django, won a Booktrust Early Years Award. Michael Foreman described it as, "A virtuoso display of real drawing."
Résumé
Mr Barleycorn picks a green baby growing on his land, letting loose the incredible power of nature. When melons grow in the kitchen and apples sprout out of their television, Mrs Barleycorn says the Greenling has to go. But the bounty and beauty of nature has a strange power - the power to bring a whole community together.
Préface
A modern fable about nature's power from the Greenaway Medal winner.
Texte suppl.
In measured rhyme, Pinfold (Black Dog, 2012) tells the story of Mr. Barleycorn, a man who brings home an odd green baby he found on his land. His wife wants him to get rid of it, but "You cannot return for a refund. / A baby is not like a hat. / What's picked is picked, what's done is done, / and that, Barleycorns, is that." So, despite his wife's complaints, Mr. Barleycorn gives the baby a pile of dirt for a bed, and lets him grow-and soon, nature begins to run wild. The Greenling's influence seeps throughout the Barleycorn's house: trees grow over their television, lavender surrounds their bed, and grass and sunflowers sprout out of the walls and the telephone. When the townspeople, angry that their plants are taking over, call for the Barleycorns to get rid of the child, Mrs. Barleycorn changes her mind: "We should welcome this Greenling into our house, / we've been living in his all along!" The rhyme scheme is gentle and soothing, and Pinfold's luminous mixed-media illustrations are gloriously strange. This fable about the power of the outside world and the balance between technology and nature is important, and the story itself is haunting and austere.
