Carolinda Clatter!

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Carolinda Clatter (First Edition) Pub. Date: 9/1/2005 Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
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Carolinda Clatter! (CD - Unabridged) Pub. Date: 9/28/2006 Publisher: Live Oak Media (NY)

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A giant's unsuccessful courtship with the moon leads him to despondence and slumber for hundreds of thousands of years in Mordicai Gerstein's delightful picture book (Roaring Brook Press, 2005). Meanwhile, the quiet town of Pupickton (bellybutton) springs up on the giant's belly. Villagers, cautious not to wake him, resort to unnatural silence until one day a girl named Carolinda Clatter is born. Her cantankerous clatter proves to be the melodious antidote for the lovesick giant who is finally able to bring closure to his restless relations with the moon. The villagers' whispery voices resound like aliens as they try to shush Carolinda, adding dramatic effect and emphasizing the unnatural quality of a town without sound. The subterranean voice of the giant shakes the whole village after Carolinda Clatter noisily wakes him up. While Gerstein's narration perfectly characterizes the giant, Bonnie Kelley-Young's voice doesn't ring true for the spirited girl. Instead of a spunky girl with a strong personality, she becomes a soft-spoken, lilting adult with a sweet manner. The disconnect between the illustrations of Carolinda and her voice is a bit disconcerting. However, the tale is intriguing and demonstrates the power of music to transform noise into melody and fill empty souls with "dreams."
—Ann CrewdsonCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781595199584
Publisher: Live Oak Media (NY)
Publication date: 9/28/2006
Format: CD
Edition description: Unabridged
Age range: 3 - 7 Years
Product dimensions: 8.48 (w) x 11.66 (h) x 0.56 (d)

Meet the Author

Mordicai Gerstein

Mordicai Gerstein was already a talented children’s book illustrator when he decided to start writing children’s books of his own. Since then, he has released dozens of titles and has won nearly as many awards for his stories of childhood innocence, spiritual exploration, and imagination gone wild. His biographical story of tightrope walker Philippe Petit won the 2004 Caldecott Medal, making The Man Who Walked Between the Towers the most distinguished American picture book for children in 2004.

Biography

Mordicai Gerstein has always been an artist. As a child, he enjoyed painting and eventually graduated from art school in Los Angeles. He continued painting in New York City and supported himself and his family for 25 years by designing and directing animated television commercials. He says, "I had always loved cartoons, especially Bugs Bunny, and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects."

During the 1960s, Gerstein made several films that received critical acclaim. In 1966, The Room won the Award of the Film Clubs of France at the International Festival for Experimental Film, and in 1968, The Magic Ring won a CINE Golden Eagle.

His career took a dramatic turn when he met children's author Elizabeth Levy in 1970. He has illustrated her Something Queer Is Going On chapter books ever since, and it was Levy and her editor who encouraged Gerstein to write a book on his own. His debut came in 1983 with Arnold of the Ducks, the story of a young boy who gets lost in the wild and is raised by ducks. The New York Times hailed Gerstein's freshman effort as one of the year's best children's books, and he went on to write two more volumes exploring the theme of feral childhood. In 1998 he released The Wild Boy, a picture book based on the true story of a young 18th-century French boy who was found living in the woods and was put on display as an oddity, only to escape and be captured again years later. That same year, Gerstein released Victor, a young adult novel about the same boy.

Gerstein tells the story is of a Tibetan woodcutter who is given a choice between reincarnation or heaven in The Mountains of Tibet, which received the distinction of being one of 1987's ten best illustrated books of the year, according to The New York Times. Although the book is written for kids around age seven, Gerstein approaches the subject of death with a bold, sensitive plot and elegant illustrations. Spirituality is a major theme in many of Gerstein's books. He has interpreted tales from the Bible in Jonah and the Two Great Fish (1997), Noah and the Great Flood (1999), and Queen Esther the Morning Star (2001). Other titles such as The Seal Mother (1986), The Story of May (1993), and The Shadow of a Flying Bird (1994) also express Gerstein's reverential awe for the world.

Young readers can also stretch their imaginations with Gerstein's more playful books. Vocabulary is fun in The Absolutely Awful Alphabet (1999), where the letter P is actually a particularly putrid predator! Bedtime Everybody! (1996) has a young girl's stuffed animals planning a bedtime picnic. Behind the Couch (1996) takes readers on an exciting caper into an unknown world of grazing dust balls, Lost Coin Hill and the Valley of the Stuffed Animals. In Stop Those Pants (1998), a boy is forced to play hide-and-seek with his clothes as he gets ready for the day. Gerstein pays tribute to American composer Charles Ives in What Charlie Heard (2002), the story of a boy's unique talent for interpreting all the sounds of daily life.

Another biographical picture book, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2003) tells the story of Philippe Petit, the daredevil who walked across a tightrope suspended between New York City's World Trade Center towers in 1974. The book won the Caldecott Medal in 2004, and parents have praised the book as an invaluable tool for talking to their children about the events of 9/11.

Many of Gerstein's children's books are destined to be classics. His style of writing and illustration brings each of his stories to life, shows a passion for adventure, and relishes the joy that comes from understanding the mysteries of the world.

Good To Know

Despite a successful career illustrating children's books, the first book Gerstein wrote, Arnold of the Ducks, was turned down by seven publishers. Eventually, The New York Times called it one of the best children's books of the year.

Gerstein was inspired to write The Mountains of Tibet after reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

1. Hometown:
  
  Northhampton, Massachusetts
1. Date of Birth:
  
  November 25, 1935
2. Place of Birth:
  
  Los Angeles, California
1. Education:
  
  Chouinard Institute of Art
2. Website:
  
  http://www.mordicaigerstein.com

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