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Selma / Jutta Bauer.
Selma the sheep is asked what she would do if she had more time and if she won a million dollars.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781929132508
- ISBN: 1929132506
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 11 x 16 cm.
- Edition: First American Edition
- Publisher: La Jolla, California : Kane/Miller, 2003.
- Manufacturer: Guangdong, China : Regent, 2009.
- Copyright: ©2002.
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| General Note: | Reading Power selection Gr. K-1 (transform) |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | JP Baue (Text) | 33294001720564 | Juvenile Picture Books | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2004 Spring
Asked about happiness, a ""wise ram"" tells the story of Selma, a sheep with a routine of eating grass, playing with her children, exercising, and sleeping. And if she were given more time or a million dollars? Selma explains that she would eat grass, play with her children, exercise, and sleep. Although philosophically light, the book will charm readers with its tiny trim size and quirky, subtly colored line drawings. Copyright 2004 Horn Book Guide Reviews. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2003 August #2
Bauer's hand-size volume delivers big things in a small package. Her pen-and-ink and watercolor wash images framed on creamy pages with generous borders make the perfect accompaniment for her simple message. A world-weary dog, slumped at a table with a half-empty glass of wine, decides to seek out "the wise ram" and asks him, "What is happiness?" The ram answers him with a fable about Selma, a wide-eyed ewe with a big snout. "Every morning at sunrise, Selma would eat a little grass.../...she would play with her children until lunchtime.../ ...exercise in the afternoon," says the ram, unspooling her day at a leisurely pace. The loosely drawn ink cartoon panels, one per spread, glow with gentle tints that mark the passage of the sun across the sky. Foreign elements-the hand of an interviewer, or the tail of a fox-intrude slyly, but Selma stays unruffled, true to her unhurried life, exchanging bleats with her children and chatting with her neighbor. An interviewer holding out a microphone asks Selma what she would do if she had more time or if she won a million dollars. Her answer: she would change nothing ("eat a little grass... play with her children until lunchtime," and so on), though Bauer adds some comic touches to vary the paintings. Selma makes an ideal mascot for living in the moment and for the importance of rituals, in this charming antidote to the clamor of consumerism. All ages. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
