White Ravens’99/Switzerland (French)/74765
Martingay, Claude (text)  
 Cardinaux, Xavier (illus.)
 La rivière
 (The river)
 Genève: Joie de Lire, 1998. 22pp
 (Dialogues avec grand-père)
 ISBN 2-88258-112-2
 Grandfather/Grandchild - Love - Imagination
 Grandfather is sitting in his chair. His little grandchild 
 insists, »Teach me how to fish!« »First you must sit still for 
 a long time next to the river until it begins to talk to you,« the grandfather answers, because it will then be
 possible 
 for the young child to tell about his river, the words be-coming like living fish that the grandfather can
 catch and eat. This short, gentle intercourse is accompanied by illustrations in shining gold-tone reflections
 of light and color, as segments taken from the several meters high abstract triptych by the Genevan painter
 Xavier Cardinaux. They encompass the patterns in both the carpet and grandfather’s chair in the room,
 interwoven with the changes tones of a sun-flooded river. It awakens the association with the dreamy look
 of a child with half-closed eyes, 
 drifting off into a fantasy world. (5+) 

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