Monstros!

by Alice Hoogstad

Quanta confusão uma menina e seus lápis de cor podem causar numa cidade em branco e preto? Muita, principalmente se ela estiver acompanhada de alguns “amigos”. “Monstros!” é um livro-imagem capaz de contar uma nova história cada vez que é aberto.

De autoria de Alice Hoogstad, a obra foi originalmente editada pela Lemniscaat e conquistou o prêmio holandês de ilustração Gouden Penseei 2015. Pela Amelì, o livro foi impresso em papel offset de alta gramatura a fim de permitir a sua apropriação pelo leitor, que pode colori-lo como e se preferir.

Genres: Picture Books, Art, Monsters, Childrens, Fiction

28 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great art, fun story. However, as a librarian, I'm worried that it won't last too long. Sometimes line drawings are too exciting for little ones and they can't leave it alone and then they color in it. sigh.

[Belinda Vlasbaard · Rating 5 out of 5]

4,5 sterren - Nederlandse hardcover

Recensie volgt later.

[Marília Bia · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book worried me a lot.
while the kid is creating the monsters, people in town were happy and ok. but once the town is completely colorful (which meant joy, happiness and lightness for me), adults begin to get pretty disturbed and even the policemen suppresses the kid. the result is that the first kid and the monsters have to erase all the color and they get a limited space where they can be who they want to be. and the town returns to its black and white dry and dull way (and adults get happy again).
also, why the ones who try to bring color and joy to the town are "monsters"? do they have to be repressed? and then there's the dog: it takes the heart along the story (showing affection from the kid), but it disappears once the adults and the policemen get disturbed. there's nothing happy about this book. and then when I read the comments here on the Goodreads page, people get worried because they can't leave the book on the library schools because kids want to paint the black and white parts of the town! it just confirms that kids can't act following their natural instincts, curiosities and desires - not in the book neither in reality! it's terrible!

[Boom! · Rating 3 out of 5]

My kids we a bit neutral on this one. I think the illustrations were well done and the only thing that kept their interest to the final pages.

[nAeEMak نعیمک]

کتاب‌های تصویری بی‌کلام از محبوب‌ترین کتاب‌های کودکی هستند که می‌خوانم یا اگر دقیق‌تر بگویم می‌بینم و همیشه به این فکر بودم که چطوری داستان‌شان را روایت می‌کنند و چه گره‌هایی می‌توانند داشته باشند. چند روز پیش این کتاب را خواندم. نتوانستم باهایش ارتباط برقرار کنم و انگار که یک چیزی کم داشت. این یادداشت لزوماً به معنای بد بودن کتاب نیست و بیشتر کندوکاو شخصی است که چرا کتاب تصویری می‌تواند سخت باشد. تصاویر کتاب برایم یک حس آشنایی داشت و نمی‌دانم چرا. انگار تصاویر شلوغ این شکلی از شهر که سیاه و سفید هم بودند برایم خیلی آشنا هستند و نمی‌دانم چرا، و این حس آشنا را دوست داشتم چون من را راحت‌تر به کتاب وصل می‌کند. این ایده که سیاه و سفید بود برایم این شکلی بود که کتاب را رنگ کنم و دقیقاً ایدهٔ خود کتاب هم همین بود یعنی اینکه یک سری موجود رنگی کم‌کم به وجود می‌آمدند و شهر را رنگی‌رنگی می‌کردند. در نگاه اول ایده را خیلی دوست داشتم مخصوصاُ که موجودات رنگی خیلی بانمک و واقعاً شبیه نقاشی بودند اما هر چی جلوتر رفت انگار در همان ایده گیر کرده بود و جلوتر نمی‌رفت. باحال بود که موجودات بانمک بیشتری را می‌دیدم و هر کدام هم خلاقانه‌تر و باحال‌تر بودند اما منتظر بودم ببینم بعدش چی می‌شود. خب، شهر هم رنگی‌تر شد و انتخاب رنگ‌ها و نوع رنگ‌آمیزی هم باز شبیه نقاشی‌های کودکانه بود و حس خوشی داشت و البته شاید واقعاً این کتاب می‌تواند یک تمرین برای رنگ‌آمیزی هم باشد و شهر خودمان را بسازیم. مسئلهٔ اصلی‌ام در دو سه صفحهٔ آخر به وجود آمد. انگار نمی‌توانستم بفهمم مردم شهر چه واکنشی دارند. نه خوشحال، نه عصبانی، نه نگران و از دیدن جمعیتی که هیچی ازشان نمی‌فهمیدم گیج شدم. ابرها از کجا آمدند؟ قرار بود بچه‌ها شهر را پاک کنند و دوباره مردم شهر وقتی همه‌چیز سیاه و سفید شده خیالشان راحت شد؟‌ من چنین برداشتی داشتم اما دوست داشتم دقیق‌تر بفهمم چی شد. البته نه اینکه همهٔ شهر رنگی شود و آدم‌ها تغییر کنند اما برایم پیچ داستان جیب بود. یعنی از جایی که همه‌جا رنگی می‌شود تا جایی که بچه‌ها و هیولاها انگار پنهانی دوباره همه‌جا را رنگ می‌کنند برای من افتادگی داشت و مدام فکر می‌کردم این از اشکال داستان‌سرایی به شکل تصویر است که نمی‌تواند آنچه که نویسنده داشته در ذهنش می‌ساخته را به من منتقل کند و البته چون کتاب به فارسی چاپ شده و از چندین فیلتر رد شده فکر می‌کنم مشکل از من است که این افتادگی را درک نمی‌کنم. اما نهایتاً باز هم ایده خیلی ساده انجام می‌شود و راستش هیچ اشکالی ندارد ولی برای کشوری که کتاب خیلی گران حساب می‌شود دوست داشتم کتاب تصویری که برمی‌دارم باحال‌تر باشد که خب، کتاب‌های تصویری بی‌کلام بهتری هم دیدم.

[Meg · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the illustrations in the book, and the level of detail in the city scape. The lack of any words allows for the story to be told a different way each time. An added bonus was that it took me down a lovely memory lane of the children's cartoon Penny Crayon.

One reviewer says that the dog carrying the heart disappears when the adults are angry, but having had a careful look he is in every page - and the only time the heart is missing is when the adult are being cross and making the children clean up the colour.

However, the premise of the book is that the monsters which come to life disrupt the quiet little town, and as such the adults are upset. I can see that this is what was being aimed at, but it comes across that the adults are upset with the children and the town now being colourful. They make the children clean all the walls, removing all the colour and don't appear to ask the monsters to limit their disruption.
It disturbs me that the message that I got from the book is that drab and colourless, is better than the light and joy that colour can bring to everyone. The end where only a small amount of colour is allowed in the drab world, worries me that we are becoming a society where putting limits on creativity/putting it into a box is acceptable or even preferable.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wordless picture book.
A lovely celebration of the imagination! Beautiful, intricate, black & white drawings juxtaposed with colorful children's drawings. Children will almost certainly treat this like a coloring book, so decide on whether or not you'll let them do so. Definitely NOT if it's a library book, but if you own it...eh, why not?

[E & E’s Mama · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elliot is into nice monsters, so this was a perfect book. A girl draws monsters on the sidewalk with chalk and they come alive, transforming her black and white town into a colorful place. It’s a wordless book, so I just made up a story

[Ian McHugh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me and my daughter loved this. No words, just two large pages of illustrations telling the story. We made up our story to fit the drawings. We loved the coming of the monsters then the gradual colour then the rebelliousness towards the end when the colouring/drawing begins again. Lovely.

[Guilherme Semionato · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amelì, 2018.

[Charlotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really fun wordless picture book!

[Tasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This wordless book shows the power of art for a whole community. In a black-and-white town that looks like a coloring book with black outlines, a little girl picks up a red crayon and starts drawing a heart on a wall. Soon she moves on to creating a monster on the road and her dog picks up her heart drawing and runs after her. The orange monster comes to life and the girl quickly moves on to another creature. One after another, she draws them and they come to life. The rest of the town looks on with amused expressions and no alarm even as monsters dance in the streets. Soon the monsters have crayons too and are coloring the buildings and people. This though is too much and the townsfolk order them to leave town and the children start to clean up the walls back to white again. Rain falls and washes all of the color away, or does it?

This is a picture book that celebrates public art and then turns whimsical and magical as the creatures come to life. Despite their fearsome appearance, they are friendly and silly rather than mean. The art is quite unique with its color-book feel and then the colors being drawn in. There is a radiant quality to the colors that are used and the loose and generous way the colors are applied invites children to be even more creative when they color too.

While this could encourage children to color on white walls, this book is much more likely to end up in a family coloring together appropriately and creatively. Appropriate for ages 3-5.

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anyone who prefers his/her books to remain pristine may not want to include this picture book in a personal or classroom library since it literally beckons readers to grab their own crayons and color inside the lines. An imaginative girl travels through the streets of her city, drawing figures as she goes. At first she starts with a simple heart shape, but then she graduates to detailed monsters who join her on a colorful journey. While parts of the town remain in black and white, wherever she goes, colors and brightness bloom. I really enjoyed the story told in this wordless picture book and the detailed illustrations, many of them filled with various roof tiles and cobblestone streets and fascinated onlookers.

[Christine Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quiet city in black and white bursts into color as an energetic child uses colorful crayons to create vibrant monsters that run rampant in this wordless picture book. The beautiful and intricate illustrations reveal their own stories on repeat viewings making this a go-to book for a rainy day. Beware! You'd better keep the crayons out of reach of your children after reading this book--they might get too inspired!

Subject: Monsters
Note: "Originally published in The Netherlands under the title Monsterbœk"--Title page verso.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE this wordless picture book that is reminiscent of Harold and the Purple Crayon. So much to see in the illustrations and the colors get more and more vibrant as the little girl's drawings come to life.

[Edward Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Magical crayons bring about monstrous results in this delightfully whimsical wordless picture book.

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A wordless book that slowly blossoms with color this title is one that will encourage readers to become their own storytellers.

[Alistair Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is amazing because the monsters use the crayons to draw the houses, the floors, the roads, and the sidewalk.

[Mehsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ik was helemaal vergeten deze als Read te zetten op Goodreads. :) Dit was een leuk en creatief boek.

[E · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ahh this was such a cute concept, and the art was gorgeous and colorful!