Kaleidoscope (the heartbreaking, life-affirming, beautiful new book by award-winning author)

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Middle school readers aren't quite the sophisticated type to appreciate a book that is rich in themes but lacks plot or characters. Count your fingers and toes, then count backwards until a spaceship lifts off and rockets away from the Earth. Even after reading the reviews to see what others took away, it didn't coalesce into anything meaningful for me. You need to be willing to give yourself over to the stories, to lose yourself in the different facets of the book, all while asking (particularly on a re-read) how the stories relate to one another, even abstractly. A deftly written family saga that explores—and challenges—the contemporary American dream and the meaning of home and family.

Split up into roughly 24 short stories, the author attempts to provide a couple of central themes throughout, but this is haphazardly done. This book features two different methods for making flying geese and half square triangles – traditional method and triangle paper and foundation paper. The only qualm I had was that it would have been even more amazing had the story of Sam Walker ans Solange not stretched so long. Here he takes an illustration and turns it first into a kaleidoscope image, only revealing the actual image after the page turn.In it, twin stories of sibling love and romantic love are woven together to ultimately tell a nuanced story of self-love. Sparkling with sharp observations and deeply wise in its insights, Kaleidoscope is a moving portrayal of the tangled knot of sisterhood and the dizzying spiral of grief. It all changes when a private investigator is asked to find the three girls by a guilt prone friend of their father's who is about to die and wishes to see them united. The story revolves around two lovers who marry and start a family, only to be torn apart by a tragic misunderstanding.

I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! While Selznick trusts readers to draw their own conclusions about what is true, he offers rich companionship on the voyage. Gratificante, interesante, entretenida y sorpresiva así fue esta lectura en la que como delta de un rio turbulento las aguas se separan y se vuelven a unir para desembocar plácidamente en el mar.I've read about 20 books in the past month and none of them moved past the internal gauge of 'passing the time', so of course it's this book that pushed the needle. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams.

All I know for sure is this: Every reader will see something different and feel something personal as they immerse themselves in this book. Whether examining interior moments or negotiations with the world of work; whether writing astute commentary on political and social inequalities, or simply savouring those small moments of deep joy provoked by the simplest of things, Colkitto holds up a mirror to life-his own, and ours.

The narrator’s and James’s identities are malleable from story to story, though certain themes and motifs remain consistent or reappear throughout the book: love and loss, grief and friendship; apples, gardens, butterflies, and—of course—a boy named James. No book can heal those wounds or transform one’s way of seeing things, but this one would have helped guide me towards constructive understanding.