Freddie & Gingersnap
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- ¥1,500
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- ¥1,500
発行者による作品情報
Freddie is a little dinosaur that wants more than anything to know what clouds are like. Gingersnap is a little dragon that wishes more than anything to fly. When Gingersnap ??? in a failed first attempt at flight ???falls right on top of Freddie, the two glare at each other. Then they growl and hiss at each other. But when their individual howls and stomps find a common rhythm, their attempts at aggression transform into a dance of friendship ??? and brings each of them that much closer to realizing his or her dream.
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Freddie is a green dinosaur, Ginger-snap is a purple dragon, and their species normally "stayed as far away from each other as possible." But fate, gravity, and Kirsch (The Chandeliers) bring them together, and after some initial posturing they uncover a mutual love for noisemaking ("they snip-snapped their sharp tiny teeth"), chasing, and attempting to fly. And when it really counts whether they're falling off a cliff (depicted in a vertical gatefold) or finally taking to the air the two friends are there for each other. Kirsch's na f drawing style gives the spreads a kooky 1960s feel; his characters' slight, childlike bodies, long spiny tails, and saucerlike eyes are undeniably adorable. The story is hard to track, however, and its lackadaisical use of sound cues and repetition ("Fredddie swirled and twirled and whirled. Gingersnap whirled and twirled and swirled") comes across more like an attempt to cover up a lack of story than a means to draw readers in. In many ways, this reads like a setup to a series, and not a standalone work. Ages 4 6.
