Ignoring the view
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The narrator of this book is a little girl. At first he says that the grandfather was a hunter (our grandfather was a hunter when he was young) and then he is now a photographer. Axpi (Ainara Azpiazu Aduriz) tells us with images the total meaning of these phrases. In the first, the heads of the animals appear on the walls of the grandfather's house, in the second, the photographs with the grandfather's animals. A sign that he's gone from dying to loving.
The narrator wants to go with his grandfather to the forest to see the animals. “In view of the photos, I’ve been shocked to meet the animals in the forest and I’ve asked my grandfather to accompany him. Deer, cork, wild boar, badgers (…) I want to see you all!” And what he tells us in this album is a little walk through the forest with his grandfather. How they go, and how in the sight of the girls, they don't see animals, while grandfather photographed the animals in the forest and his nephew. Foxes, squirrels, hares, petirreds… we can see the animals of the forest in beautiful illustrations of vivid colors and marked strokes. However, the protagonist will see nothing in the forest to look at the street.
The story has humor, a point of defense of nature and our environment. But above all, the book is an example of the game between grandson and grandfather and the showcase of the animals of the forest, a work to know and love the animals that are in our forest.
Axpi achieves the combination between text and illustration very well; the viewer perfectly gathers the intentions of the author, the feelings of the protagonists, the reflection of reality. The reader follows the story without problems and offers the reader or those who share the reading of the book a unique opportunity to play with the protagonists. The book, especially because it's game, and the highlight of that game we can see at the end, with the gift that grandpa has prepared for him when his nephew wakes up the morning after the tour.
A rich and rich book that offers many readings for the youngest, but also for the oldest.
Saran egingo da urriaren 11 eta 12an, eta aurtengoa laugarren edizioa izango da.
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