White Ravens’98/Mexico(Spanish)/66273
Gedovius, Juan (illus.)
Trucas (Proper name)
México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 
1997. [28pp]
(Los especiales de A la orilla del viento)
ISBN 968-16-5410-2
Imagination - Creativity - Oppression
Juan Gedovius’ wordless picture book leaves much room for fantasy and
choice of interpretation, thus setting in motion what the pictures illustrate:
imagination. Creativity that cannot be held back, won’t be cut down to
size, and always finds a way to be expressed is the focal point here,
personified as a bubbly, green, disheveled gnome. He smears color on the
walls, is chastised by a »heavenly« hand, then plopped into a bathtub to get
clean, threatened by the thick pencil tail of a dragon and singed by its
blazing flames. And in spite of it all, he begins to decorate the walls again,
this time with his sooty body. Although there seems to be little to see in this
very original, attractively illustrated book, it calls for a closer look. Then it
is possible to discover the wit and to become curious about what else
might be hidden behind these pages. (6+)

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