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PITSCHI by Hans Fischer.
Le petit chat qui désirait toujours autre chose. Une histoire un peu triste, mais qui finit bien, de Hans Fischer Literally: The little cat who wanted to be something else. A story that's a little sad, but that finishes well. PITSCHI was a favorite book of mine as a child and remains so today. I still love exploring the double-page spread of the garden with Pitschi in his basket (now on wheels with a red umbrella). The expressions of the animals throughout and the general calm one gets from "old Lisette," the sole human in this book, are fabulously simple -- and perfect. Reading it again, I see that Lisette is really letting Pitschi explore who he can be and allowing Pitschi to be comfortable in his own skin: "Maintenant il n'a plus la moindre envie de devenir autre chose qu'un minet." Pretty modern! When I got to college in Vermont (down to the Lower 48 from the Great White North), I enlisted the help of book collectors (this was before the Internet, btw) looking for this then-out-of-print book -- I think I wrote to someone who advertised in the sidebars of The New Yorker. The edition that arrived in my Marlboro College mailbox was published in French by the Swiss publisher Editions Wolfsberg, Zurich 1949. I still have it! Anyone else have a favorite picture book they've held onto "throughout the ages"? (Sergio is keeping the list at http://sergioruzzier.blogspot.com) Apps, librarians, dystopia... what will the status of librarians be in Dystopia? Is the dystopian divide the eastern/western line that a good number of recent titles have drawn? Click and type in a question or comment Dystopian is to lemons as paranormal is to ...? There's no right answer but it was fun messing with these relationships (dare I say, concepts). I rather like this one: Paranormal is to sorbet as dystopian is to ... frozen yogurt? Or, irreality is to smoke as fiction is to ... chicken nuggets! Your turn... Your words... |
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