The Storyteller
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Average rating4.5
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Ratings2
Average rating4.5
Long, long ago, like a pearl around a grain of sand, the Kingdom of Morocco formed at the edge of the great, dry Sahara. It had fountains of cool, refreshing water to quench the thirst of the desert, and storytellers to bring the people together.
But as the kingdom grew, the people forgot the dangers of the desert, and they forgot about the storytellers, too. All but one young boy, who came to the Great Square for a drink and found something that quenched his thirst even better: wonderful stories. As he listened to the last storyteller recount the Endless Drought, and the Glorious Blue Water Bird, he discovered the power of a tale well told.
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I think his art is graphically interesting but I don't personally like it. I'm firmly in the minority here, which is good because this is most likely Caldecott short-list. The triple-nested story about the powers of storytelling was beautiful, and I liked that the end notes gave a few details about keeping culture through storytelling but didn't get too didactic, letting the power of the story speak.
Cybils nominee for best fiction picture book. More later.
