TITLE: The Wall : Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain
AUTHOR: Peter Sis( He also illustrated the book)
GENRE: Auto-biography, General Fiction
THEMES: International Relations, European History
AWARDS: Caldecott, Robert F. Sibert
PUBLISHING
DATE AND COMPANY: Straus and Giroux 2007
SUMMARY: This book is an amazing auto-biography that Peter Sis wrote of his life growing up in the time of communism in Czechoslovakia. During each of the different 'time periods' of his life, there is a different artistic element that show through. When he was young and there was heavy communism in his life, the pictures were very dull, with black and white and some red mixed in. The red represented the communism in his life. At the very end, representing the freedom from communist Russia, there is the most colorful picture that represents the spring in Prauge, and shows that the people are no longer oppressed, but can fully express themselves. This is a great book for uper elementary scoool all the way into beginning of highschool, because it can show so much just through the art, and the higher the learning level, the more a student can get out of it.
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