Rose Blanche

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Chambers, Aiden. “The Reader in the Book”, Booktalk: Occasional Writing on Literature & Children. Thimble Press. 1985 As charming the illustrations are, the issue isn’t pleasant at all: It’s the story of a little girl, Rose Blanche, who lives during the WWII in Germany. She watches the enthusiasm for war in her town and after a while she discovers a concentration camp. She begins to smugggle food to the children living there. The illustrations are very detailed, the texts (for examples on the facades of the houses) are in German and clothes and architecture are so well observed that I tend to say the setting is Bavaria.

From Rose Blanche there is a passenger ferry that services the isolated community of La Poile 35 kilometres (22mi) to the east. [3] [4] [5] [6] History [ edit ] Innocenti elabora magistralmente una correspondencia simbólica entre la duración de la guerra y las estaciones del año: la guerra empieza justo antes del duro invierno y termina en primavera cuando todo renace. Ask pupils to share personal stories with the class about someone helping them out of trouble e.g. they went too deep in water and someone pulled them out. Return to some of the examples from the presentation and invite comments from pupils about: Roberto Innocenti is an Italian illustrator who was brought up as a child during the Second World War. He aimed to devise a story for children based on his own childhood experience which would reflect a child's incomplete comprehension of war.Rose Blanche often went shopping for her mother. There were long queues outside the shops, but no one grumbled. Everybody knew that food was needed for the soldiers who were always hungry.’ The Anglican church is dedicated to "Saint Michael and All Angels," which has a "high church" tradition. A few decades ago the former church building was replaced by a new one. I believe the story focuses on three primary characters. The first, Rose, is a young girl who is unfamiliar with what is happening in her town (the war), and she is curious to find out and grasp an understanding of these events. The author continues to develop her character by following her curiosity, interest, and reactions of the war. The second characters, the soldiers, are represented as a being, a force from which change is occurring. The third character is the children and individuals in the concentration camps, from which Rose’s character is further developed in how she reacts to them. The author does a great job of trying to place Rose in almost every picture as you follow her journey. This is a harrowing yet moving story, which is suitable for older children. However, I heed caution as the images depicted and the discussions that can arise from this book are of a very sensitive nature and children may not understand all of its elements.

I found two real problems with Rose Blanche. The first was that right in the middle of the first person narration by Rose, the narrating voice switches to the third person. Why? Even given her eventual fate, this just didn't need to happen and it was jarring. I think using a third person narrator would have been better from the start anyway, given the freedom an omniscient narrator has over a first person.The book is beautifully illustrated but I found the story unsatisfying. The end didn’t work for me; I wanted more. I am fine with disturbing stories, especially if aimed at a suitably mature audience, but this sparse tale is awfully dark for the picture book age set. And, while as an adult I understood exactly what happens, I don’t think most children will without an explanation. If you read this to young children, be prepared to have a discussion, and I don’t recommend this for young kids, not at all. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-08-18 22:44:30 Boxid IA142216 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Mankato, Minn. Donor Rosa Blanca es un álbum muy interesante para trabajar en el aula. El relato puede parecer para algunos alumnos una lectura infantil. Sin embargo con una buena lectura guiada, los alumnos podrán ir descubriendo el álbum como si se tratase de una muñeca rusa. De esta suerte, se puede trabajar la intertextualidad en la medida en que la obra es homónima al movimiento de resistencia de un grupo de estudiantes de la Universidad de Múnich. Asimismo el álbum es una excelente manera de tratar temas duros como la guerra o la muerte que en principio no son temas propios de la literatura infantil y juvenil. En la siguiente ilustración Innocenti nos cede el punto de vista de la protagonista y descubrimos a doble página en un plano frontal panorámico un campo de concentración. Texto -«El sol se ocultaba entre las colinas. Hacía viento. Rosa Blanca sintió frío»- e imagen devienen, una vez más, un todo que revelan metafóricamente la pérdida de la inocencia de la protagonista.