[Short review] “Song of the Wild Horses” — a book of shocking beauty!

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Song of the Wild Hors­es (Inspi­ra­tional Selec­tion of Calde­cott Medal Pic­ture Books)
Text and pho­tos by Paul Gob­le (USA) Trans­lat­ed by Huang Xiaoyin
Hebei Edu­ca­tion, pub­lished in March 2010
 
   
This is a book of breath­tak­ing beau­ty! The lan­guage is beau­ti­ful, the illus­tra­tions are beau­ti­ful, and the sto­ry is tru­ly beau­ti­ful. I nev­er imag­ined that this book, which looks like a wood­block print, is actu­al­ly made of water­col­or! The end­ing was also quite unex­pect­ed.

   
This is the kind of book you can’t help but share with your chil­dren. As I was car­ry­ing it home, I hap­pened to run into my daugh­ter on the way. She read it through as we walked, and then she said, “What a great sto­ry! The girl turns into a wild horse at the end—that’s great!” —Haha, I thought so too, although it was a lit­tle unex­pect­ed.
 
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Even the ded­i­ca­tion page is so beau­ti­ful!
 
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The more I look at this reflec­tion paint­ing, the more I like it:)
 
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I feel par­tic­u­lar­ly com­fort­able when I see this pic­ture!
 
【About the author/illustrator】
    Paul Gob­le
Gob­le
   
Paul Gob­le was not orig­i­nal­ly a writer or painter. He became a famous pic­ture book writer by acci­dent. When his chil­dren were young, Gob­le often read books to them. One time, when he saw his son watch­ing a play about Gen­er­al Cus­tard, he
Custer TV series, he found that the plot was com­plete­ly incon­sis­tent with his­to­ry! So he went to the library to look for a book about Gen­er­al Custer, but found that there were no books suit­able for sev­en-year-olds.
He was so famil­iar with the bat­tle of Cus­tard and the Sioux and Cheyenne Indi­ans at Bighorn that he had an idea: he would write a book him­self, draw illus­tra­tions, and read it to his chil­dren.

   
That’s how Gob­le lat­er became a writer and illus­tra­tor who won many awards. In fact, his job and pro­fes­sion is fur­ni­ture and indus­tri­al design­er and lec­tur­er at the design school. All his works are com­plet­ed in the evening after he gets home from get off work.

   
After becom­ing a writer and illus­tra­tor, he pub­lished many won­der­ful pic­ture books for young read­ers, such as The Girl Who Was a Wild Horse, which won the Calde­cott Gold Medal in 1979.
Loved Wild
In this book, he, as a recorder of Indi­an cul­ture, con­veys two con­cepts: not only allow­ing the gen­er­al pub­lic to bet­ter under­stand the peace­ful coex­is­tence of Indi­ans with nature, but also allow­ing Indi­ans to be more proud of their cul­ture.

   
Paul Gob­le’s works have been rec­om­mend­ed by the Nation­al Coun­cil of Social Sci­ences (NCSS), the Inter­na­tion­al Read­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (IRA), the Chil­dren’s Books Coun­cil (CBC) and oth­er orga­ni­za­tions.