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The Room of Wonders
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2006-04-18)
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Amazon Description
room with his marvelous findings, attracting curious visitors.
His very favorite item, a plain gray pebble, is given a place of
honor, which baffles everyone. They all ask why he would keep
such an ordinary stone. Bowing to public opinion, Pius gets rid
of it, but in doing so, he discovers he’s lost much more than just
the pebble.
This philosophical tale about a small creature who has the eye
and soul of an artist is brought to life in distinctly droll
watercolor illustrations.
One Potato Review
Here are the treasures in the eyes of this beholder: keys, and bits of driftwood, and undelivered letters, and anything else he can manage to stash in a room full of cubbies, whose centerpiece remains an unassuming, and unexplained, pebble of no apparent splendor. The tension here, and the surprises, arrive when visitors begin remarking on its relative plainness – “an eyesore,” says one - and this pack rat needs to decide for whom he’s been collecting, and why. The artwork here is exquisitely detailed and original, and it would be a pity if older readers were put off by the appearances of softer colors, and talking animals. Because here is finally a story with a great deal to say about the wonders of original thinking, and sometimes also the regrets.
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