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Year of the Jungle
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780545425162
- Book Title
- Year of the Jungle: Memories from the Home Front
- Item Length
- 11.4in
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Juvenile Fiction
- Topic
- Family / Parents, Action & Adventure / General, General, Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, Historical / Military & Wars
- Item Width
- 8.8in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 40 Pages
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Product Information
When Suzy's father is called to war in a faraway jungle, she struggles to deal with his absence. When will he return? As the months go by, measured by the arrival of postcards, Suzy's father starts to feel further and further away. Here is a book that will speak to any child who has had to spend time apart from a loved one.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scholastic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0545425166
ISBN-13
9780545425162
eBay Product ID (ePID)
125016496
Product Key Features
Book Title
Year of the Jungle: Memories from the Home Front
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family / Parents, Action & Adventure / General, General, Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, Historical / Military & Wars
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Juvenile Fiction
Number of Pages
40 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.4in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
8.8in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pz7.C6837ye 2013
Grade from
Kindergarten
Grade to
Seventh Grade
Reviews
Praise for Suzanne Collins's work: "Collins writes with raw power." -- TIME Magazine Praise for James Proimos's work: …Imaginative and humorous…"-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Proimos's light cartoon art and plotline carry some weighty themes." -- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, "In her first picture book, Collins sensitively examines the impact of war on the very young, using her own family history as a template. Suzy is the youngest of four children--Proimos draws her with impossibly big, questioning blue eyes and a mass of frizzy red hair--and she is struggling to understand the changes in her family. ?My dad has to go to something called a war,? she explains. ?It's in a place called Viet Nam. Where is Viet Nam? He will be gone a year. How long is a year? I don't know what anybody's talking about.' When Suzy learns that her father is in the jungle, she imagines something akin to the setting of her favorite cartoon (Collins suggests it's George of the Jungle). As the months wear on, though, Suzy begins to piece together the danger her father is in, whether it's through the increasingly unnerving postcards he sends (one reads, ?Pray for me,? in closing) or by catching a snippet of wartime violence on the news. ?Explosions. Helicopters. Guns. Soldiers lie on the ground. Some of them aren't moving.' In four wordless spreads, Proimos makes Suzy's awakening powerfully clear, as the gray jungle she initially pictured (populated by four smiling, brightly colored animals) gives way to a more violent vision, as the animals morph into weapons of war. Just when Suzy's confusion and fear reach an apex: ?Then suddenly my dad's home.' As in Collins's Hunger Games books, the fuzzy relationship between fear and bravery, and the reality of combat versus an imagined (or, in the case of those books, manufactured) version of it is at the forefront of this story. By the final pages, Suzy has come to understand that ?Some things have changed but some things will always be the same.' It's a deceptively simple message of reassurance that readers who may currently be in Suzy's situation can take to heart, whether their loved ones return changed, as hers did, or don't return at all. " - Publishers Weekly starred review, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearBooklist Editors Choice for 2013Book Links Lasting Connection for 2013Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book of 2013: PlatinumParents' Choice Silver Honor Winner"In a reassuring and deceptively simple way, [Year of the Jungle] continues Collins' exploration of the effect of war and violence on kids." --USA Today*"Collins mines her own experience to tell a tender personal story of war seen through a child's eyes. . . . Proimos' flat, cartoony drawings, with their heavy lines and blocky shapes, are sturdy and sweet, reflecting a child's clear-eyed innocence. While small personal details and specific references to Vietnam fix the story in one child's individual experience, it is these very particularities that establish the kind of indelible and heartfelt resonance that is universally understood. Indeed, children missing parents in all kinds of circumstances will find comfort here." --Booklist, starred review*"It's a deceptively simple message of reassurance that readers who may currently be in Suzy's situation can take to heart, whether their loved ones return changed, as hers did, or don't return at all." --Publishers Weekly, starred review*"With text and illustrations that invite close reading, this will be a powerful title to share with children well beyond picture-book age." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review"While Sue is not able to formulate her feelings in words, James Proimos's excellent illustrations capture her confusion. . . . Collins's picture book may be a good tool to discuss the complex feelings war brings into a household." --New York Times Book Review"With a notable lack of patriotic rhetoric or clichés about bravery and honor, Collins holds firm to her childhood memories, creating a universal story for any child whose life is disrupted by war. Important and necessary." --Kirkus Reviews, Praise for Year of the Jungle *"Collins sensitively examines the impact of war . . . It's a deceptively simple message of reassurance that readers who may currently be in Suzy's situation can take to heart." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review *"With a notable lack of patriotic rhetoric or clichs about bravery and honor, Collins holds firm to her childhood memories, creating a universal story for any child whose life is disrupted by war. Important and necessary." -- Kirkus , starred review, Praise for Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games series "Collins writes with raw power." -TIME MAGAZINE "[THE HUNGER GAMES] is a violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense... I couldn't stop reading." -Stephen King, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Praise for Suzanne Collins's The Underland Chronicles "Luminous, supremely absorbing..." -KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review "Readers will likely find [the Underland] to be a fantastically engaging place." -PUBLLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review Praise for James Proimos's KNUCKLE & POTTY DESTROY HAPPY WORLD "...Imaginative and humorous..." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Praise for James Proimos's TODD'S TV "Proimos's light cartoon art and plotline carry some weighty themes." -SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Praise for Year of the Jungle Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 2013 *"Collins sensitively examines the impact of war . . . It's a deceptively simple message of reassurance that readers who may currently be in Suzy's situation can take to heart." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review *"With a notable lack of patriotic rhetoric or clichés about bravery and honor, Collins holds firm to her childhood memories, creating a universal story for any child whose life is disrupted by war. Important and necessary." -- Kirkus , starred review *"[ Year of the Jungle has] the kind of indelible and heartfelt resonance to be universally understood. Indeed, children missing parents in all kinds of circumstances will find comfort here." -- Booklist "The author's spot-on memories paired with child-friendly art create a universal exploration of war and its effect on young children, ideally shared with and facilitated by a sensitive adult." -- School Library Journal, Praise for Suzanne Collins "Collins writes with raw power." - Time Magazine Praise for Suzanne Collins' Underland Chronicles series *"Luminous, supremely absorbing." - Kirkus , starred review *"Readers will likely find [the Underland] to be a fantastically engaging place." - Publishers Weekly , starred review Praise for James Proimos "Proimos' light cartoon art and plotline carry some weighty themes." - School Library Journal (on Todd's TV ) "Imaginative and humorous." - Publishers Weekly (on Knuckle & Potty Destroy Happy World ) "Whimsical, childlike art adds a visual twist for kids to appreciate." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (on The Best Bike Ride Ever ), Praise for Year of the Jungle *"Collins sensitively examines the impact of war . . . It's a deceptively simple message of reassurance that readers who may currently be in Suzy's situation can take to heart." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review *"With a notable lack of patriotic rhetoric or clichs about bravery and honor, Collins holds firm to her childhood memories, creating a universal story for any child whose life is disrupted by war. Important and necessary." -- Kirkus , starred review *"[ Year of the Jungle has] the kind of indelible and heartfelt resonance to be universally understood. Indeed, children missing parents in all kinds of circumstances will find comfort here." -- Booklist "The author's spot-on memories paired with child-friendly art create a universal exploration of war and its effect on young children, ideally shared with and facilitated by a sensitive adult." -- School Library Journal, "Collins, well known for her middle-school and YA fantasies, offers here a radical change of pace in this picture book story inspired by her own childhood, documenting the year young Suzy's father goes off to the Vietnam War. At first, the prospect doesn't sound all that bad to a rising first-grader with little grasp of time; how long could one year be? Additionally, Dad is headed for the jungle, and some of Suzy's favorite animals live (at least by her reckoning) in the jungle. A year turns out to be a very long time, though, especially when postcards come only sporadically, people's efforts at cheering her up only fill her with heretofore unconsidered anxieties, and Dad's brief missives seem increasingly distanced and confused. Theirs is a happy-ish ending--Dad does come home, although "he looks different. Tired and thin and his skin has turned the color of pancake syrup. . . . He stares into space. He is here but not here." Collins' text is simple, but it's rich in the telling details that establish the pervasive fear ("So many things are scary now") that spills over into other aspects of the little girl's life--getting a birthday card from Dad that should have gone to her sister, being showered with too much Halloween candy from a sympathetic neighbor, having a terrifying experience of being tossed into a local swimming pool. Proimos' ink-lined, digitally colored illustrations are the pitch-perfect tonal complement to Collins' narration, with the family portrayed as wide-eyed, childlike cartoons that carry on with daily life in crayon-bright hues, while young Suzy's angst-filled imaginings take shape in full-spread, full-bleed gray-tone scenes that twist her innocent favorite animals into recurrent nightmarish motifs and symbols of war. With text and illustrations that invite close reading, this will be a powerful title to share with children well beyond picture-book age. " - The Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books starred review, "Collins mines her own experience to tell a tender, personal story of war seen through a child's eyes. Firstgrader Suzy's father is deployed to Viet Nam. At first, though she misses him, she dreams of the exotic jungle. But as the year goes on, marked by Christmas trees and candy hearts, things get harder. His postcards arrive less and less frequently, while news of the war, and its real dangers, comes more and more often. In the end Suzy's father returns, and while some things are different, some things are the same. Collins' unflinching first-person account details the fears and disappointments of the situation as a child would experience them. And where more realistic illustrations would feel overwrought and sentimental, Proimos's flat, cartoony drawings, with their heavy lines and blocky shapes, are sturdy and sweet, reflecting a child's clear-eyed innocence. While small, personal details and specific references to Viet Nam fix the story in one child's individual experience, it is these very particularities that establish the kind of indelible and heartfelt resonance to be universally understood. Indeed, children missing parents in all kinds of circumstances will find comfort here." - Booklist starred review, "In her first picture book, Collins sensitively examines the impact of war on the very young, using her own family history as a template. Suzy is the youngest of four children-Proimos draws her with impossibly big, questioning blue eyes and a mass of frizzy red hair-and she is struggling to understand the changes in her family. ?My dad has to go to something called a war,? she explains. ?It's in a place called Viet Nam. Where is Viet Nam? He will be gone a year. How long is a year? I don't know what anybody's talking about.' When Suzy learns that her father is in the jungle, she imagines something akin to the setting of her favorite cartoon (Collins suggests it's George of the Jungle). As the months wear on, though, Suzy begins to piece together the danger her father is in, whether it's through the increasingly unnerving postcards he sends (one reads, ?Pray for me,? in closing) or by catching a snippet of wartime violence on the news. ?Explosions. Helicopters. Guns. Soldiers lie on the ground. Some of them aren't moving.' In four wordless spreads, Proimos makes Suzy's awakening powerfully clear, as the gray jungle she initially pictured (populated by four smiling, brightly colored animals) gives way to a more violent vision, as the animals morph into weapons of war. Just when Suzy's confusion and fear reach an apex: ?Then suddenly my dad's home.' As in Collins's Hunger Games books, the fuzzy relationship between fear and bravery, and the reality of combat versus an imagined (or, in the case of those books, manufactured) version of it is at the forefront of this story. By the final pages, Suzy has come to understand that ?Some things have changed but some things will always be the same.' It's a deceptively simple message of reassurance that readers who may currently be in Suzy's situation can take to heart, whether their loved ones return changed, as hers did, or don't return at all. " - Publishers Weekly starred review, Praise for Suzanne Collins's work: "Collins writes with raw power." -- TIME Magazine Praise for James Proimos's work: "...Imaginative and humorous..."-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Proimos's light cartoon art and plotline carry some weighty themes." -- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Praise for Year of the Jungle *"Collins sensitively examines the impact of war . . . It's a deceptively simple message of reassurance that readers who may currently be in Suzy's situation can take to heart." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review *"With a notable lack of patriotic rhetoric or clichs about bravery and honor, Collins holds firm to her childhood memories, creating a universal story for any child whose life is disrupted by war. Important and necessary." -- Kirkus , starred review "The author's spot-on memories paired with child-friendly art create a universal exploration of war and its effect on young children, ideally shared with and facilitated by a sensitive adult." -- School Library Journal
Illustrated by
Proimos, James
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2012-015346
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Intended Audience
Juvenile Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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