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Gr 4-Up Personal, political, passionatethese are among the qualities that readers have come to appreciate about Sí s's autobiographical books such as "The Three Golden Keys" (Doubleday, 1994) and "Tibet through the Red Box" (Farrar, 1998). This layered foray into family and Czech history begins with succinct sentences at the bottom of each page. Captions accompanying the artarranged in panels of varying sizefill in more details. The pacing and design of the compositions create their own rhythm, contributing much to the resulting polyphony. Sí s immediately engages even his youn...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The personal meets the political in this absorbing autobiographical picture book from Czech émigré Sís. Born in 1949, just as Czechoslovakia fell under communist rule and Soviet domination, Sís evokes the childhood of a born artist ("as long as he could remember, he had loved to draw") in a country where restrictions on what an artist could do grew along with him, where a child's love for drawing shapes and people was channeled, at school, into drawing tanks and hammer-and-sickles. While the brief main text of e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Born in 1949, as Czechoslovakia fell under Soviet domination, Sís evokes the childhood of an artist in a country of growing restri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More