Gilles VigneaultBesprekingen
Auteur van Sunday in Kyoto
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> Une découverte au hasard, difficile à trouver.
—Danieljean (Babelio)
> Un autre beau livre d'un grand poète. Comme toujours avec ses livres, sa capacité d'émerveillement me touche. À lire pour qui aime la poésie.
—Danieljean (Babelio)
> Un grand poète, une grande âme. Sa capacité d'émerveillement me touche. À lire pour qui aime la poésie.
—Danieljean (Babelio)
Ariane Moffatt, Pierre Lapointe et Luc De Larochelière leur confèrent grâce et fraîcheur alors que
les arrangements musicaux très actuels nous en mettent plein les oreilles : de la douce mélodie
japonaise au rigodon, c’est à un véritable voyage, tout en poésie, que nous sommes invités.
As with other Books/CD combinations of this sort only the first story is fully illustrated. The other pages have the lyrics to the songs and some small drawings to keep the pages lively.
That said, it's a little more difficult to describe the music. Not for any fault of the musicians, but because I'm principally not a reviewer of music any more sophisticated than Barney or the Wiggles. So bear with me, I'll try my best.
First let me say that my children, currently 7 and 9, boy and girl, really like this CD. I know that because they ask for it in the car, and I've found them singing the songs and looking through the book to get the lyrics right. It wasn't music though that we attached to right from the beginning. For us this was a CD that we had to listen to a couple of times before we really got hooked.
The tunes themselves have a hypnotic quality. The recording quality is excellent, and so are the singers; they have amazing voices.
Talking Points:::
The songs on this CD aren't the sort of simple songs you frequently get with music for children. There is more depth to them, as well as richer imagery and lyrics. There's an international feel for example and the songs include words from French and Japanese. All positives to my mind.
My general sense is that this would be a CD for 7 year olds up thru the tween years. I say this because frequently the music has complicated riffs that my kids, when they were really young, wouldn't have appreciated.
As far as lyrics they have a magical feel which leaves plenty of room for children to use their imaginations to figure out what is going on. There are fun, goofy songs, as well as a lullaby or two.
I should warn adults that in one or two places there are words you won't run across on a Barney tape. There is pee and fart for example. But such simple words shouldn't be a problem for older kids.
You can hear and see one of their excellent songs on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFYCmDwasKo
Songs include:
1. Sunday In Kyoto
2. Joe's Mother
3. If You Bump Your Knee
4. Morning Breaks On Skates
5. One, Two, Three, ABCD
6. Sleep Tight My Love
7. Little Miss Adèle
8. When the Dance Began
9. Do You Have Some Coins?
10. Four Eggs
11. Great Big Kite, The
12. Yoshi and His Boat
13. Settler's Lullaby
14. Poem of a Child
Pam T~
mom and reviewer for BooksForKids-reviews
Links
Wikipedia (English) (onbevestigd)
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> Gilles Vigneault ne fait rien comme les autres: ses petits récits, contes, chansons, fragments et poèmes sont agrémentés de «décors», portées musicales ou«enluminures» fantaisistes, à l'image de l'auteur. Mais la fantaisie n'exclut pas le sérieux des propos: «Lorsque j'entends parler d'un Québécois de souche, une image me vient d'un arbre qu'on a coupé.» Parsemé de jolies formules et de petits proverbes, ce livre est à déguster au gré de son humeur. Pour les fans.
—Danieljean (Babelio)