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Silent Days, Silent Dreams
Silent Days, Silent Dreams | Allen Say
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James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read or use sign language. Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened "James Castle: A Retrospective in 2008." The 2013 Venice Biennale included eleven works by Castle in the feature exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace." And his reputation continues to grow. Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say, author of the acclaimed memoir Drawing from Memory, takes readers through an imagined look at Castle's childhood, allows them to experience his emergence as an artist despite the overwhelming difficulties he faced, and ultimately reveals the triumphs that he would go on to achieve.
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#NewYearNewYou Day 28: Allen Say stretched his boundaries here as an artist. He adroitly experimented with a very different way of creating his images that he felt would capture the essence of this mostly-forgotten man‘s life & his #DreamsOrVisions. This act of creation produced an intimate connection between artist & subject, such that Say was able to respectfully return Castle‘s lost voice and art to him all these years. https://wp.me/pDlzr-hWP

Eggs Amazing art ❣️📖👏🏻 5y
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#MarchIntoOz Day 25: There was no#sunshine yesterday, with rains throughout the afternoon, so husband made pork sinigang (like a broth filled with vegetables) for lunch.

Blueberry My husband makes that too. Especially if he has a cold. 7y
GatheringBooks @Blueberry very nice! i couldn‘t make something like this if my life depended on it. the young corn gave this broth a really nice twist. 7y
Cinfhen I love when the hubby cooks!!! 7y
GatheringBooks @Cinfhen yessss!!! otherwise i will starve as i cannot cook to save my life! 7y
Cinfhen But u read and own books so that counts!! 7y
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Found this while looking for this title online:

Lawsuit on copyright infringement

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/art...

Tamra Funny coincidence bc just yesterday my 7 yr old was writing and illustrating a very short story 😁 and she asked whether other people‘s books could be copied. I told her not if she wanted to sell them. 😂 7y
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My award challenge: read from the Schneider list, starting with this year‘s list.

Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:

“Silent Days, Silent Dreams,” written and illustrated by Allen Say — ages 0-8

Text credit: ALA

http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/02/american-library-association-anno...

No_One Wow, interesting! I never knew about James Castle. Thanks for posting. 😊 7y
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