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Locomotive by Julian Tuwim (2017, Hardcover)

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Author: Julian Tuwim,Lewitt and Him ISBN 10: 0500650977. Title: Locomotive Item Condition: New. Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Books will be free of page markings.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherThames & Hudson

ISBN-100500650977

ISBN-139780500650974

eBay Product ID (ePID)234157061

Product Key Features

Book TitleLocomotive

Number of Pages48 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicGeneral, Poetry / General

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

AuthorJulian Tuwim

Book SeriesClassics Reissued Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length10.2 in

Item Width7.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

ReviewsAll three stories and the illustrations are remarkably creative and fun. The impressive translation maintains a seamless poetic rhythm and rhyme and is still relevant 80 years later. Don't be fooled by the old-fashioned vibe, this book smartly holds its own alongside contemporary children's literature.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromPreschool

Series Volume Number2

Dewey Decimal891.8517

Grade ToFifth Grade

SynopsisIn the late 1930s renowned Polish poet Julian Tuwim, was asked to write three poems for children. The publisher Przeworski connected the three poems into one book, Locomotive, and commissioned illustrations from celebrated Polish illustration duo Lewitt and Him. Locomotive was the beginning of a creative partnership that lasted many years. Featuring the original three poems, Locomotive, The Turnip, and The Bird's Broadcast, children learn what's inside each train carriage as it chugs along, how many people, animals, and friends it takes to pull a turnip from the ground, and what happens when birds of all kinds gather for a meeting in the woods. After its original publication in 1939 in Polish, Locomotive was swiftly translated into French and English the next year, appearing at a time when it would have been a surprise and a joy to encounter bright colors and modernist- inflected imagery. Both classic and modern, its imaginative storytelling and appeal has endured and will delight children today as much as it did eighty years ago., Tuwim's rhythmic poem Locomotive invites us aboard an old steam train as it chuffs and puffs out of the station. As it races along, rattling and clattering past bridges and valleys, we look inside some of the train's many carriages. There's a wagon of bananas, one full of pianos, another is carrying animals off to the zoo, there are giraffes and elephants and bicycles and umbrellas, and a trio of men, all eating sausages. Le Witt and Him's illustrations capture inventively the smoke and the speed and the humorous cargo. Replicating the original edition, this book includes two more short stories - the well-loved folk tale about a turnip so enormous that the farmer can't pull it up and the hilarious story of chatterbox birds who can't agree on anything. Harking back to precedents in Russian children's book-making and looking forward to the Picture Puffins and other hugely successful models in Britain and North America, Locomotive stands out as a beacon of quality and imagination that works its charm on children and parents in the twenty-first century just as much as it did on its first publication eighty years ago.