Nancy Knows
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
An unforgettable look at memory from one of Canada's premier author-illustrators. Art composed of stunning paper sculptures in the form of an adorable elephant make for a stand-out picture book -- one that will be remembered and treasured by young and old.
Nancy knows she's forgotten something. Something important. When she tries to remember, she thinks of all kinds of other things instead. She remembers things she knows and things she doesn't quite know. She remembers things one way, then another. Sometimes she remembers with her ears or her stomach or even her heart. But Nancy knows she's still forgetting something. It's only when Nancy stops thinking altogether that she finally remembers the very important thing she's forgotten. Nancy Knows is the charming story of an elephant who remember lots of things, except the very thing she is trying to remember. Each spread of this whimsical, arresting picture book features fantastic miniature paper sculptures within expressive outlines of a puzzled pachyderm. It's a book not to be forgotten.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Despite the conventional wisdom about elephants' memories, "Nancy knows she's forgotten something. Something important..." Her efforts to summon that information from the depths of her brain fill the pages that follow, while providing a canvas for some truly exceptional paper sculptures from Young (A Few Bites). On blank white pages, Young roughly outlines Nancy in graphite; within Nancy's body are dozens of tiny, intricate sculptures that represent the objects, places, smells, sounds, and emotions filling her thoughts. Sometimes the objects are thematically linked (a miniature bicycle, unicycle, grocery cart, and wheelbarrow appear as Nancy remembers "Things with wheels"); sometimes they're "a jumbled-up mess." In one scene, Nancy's body stretches across a spread, echoing the arc of a life as Nancy "remembers things from long ago. Or two days before tomorrow." Inside Nancy's body, tiny replicas of children's toys and a bassinet give way to a hockey net, basketball hoop, and fishing rod. It's just enough of a dilemma to hang a story on, but it's the how-did-she-do-that nature of Young's paper constructions that will have readers returning to these pages again and again. Ages 3 7.
