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Manneken Pis
A Simple Story of a Boy Who Peed on a War
By Radunsky, Vladimir
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68983-193-5
- Publisher
- Schwartz Atheneum
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2002
PreS-Gr 2 Inspired by a statue in Brussels, Radunsky's story begins with a happy boy and his family. Inexplicably, a war begins as green-faced enemies cloaked in black attack their beautiful town. Orange townspeople valiantly fight back in their cheerily colored outfits. When the child's parents disappear, he searches for them and comes to the heart of the fighting at the town wall. In the midst of all of this ch...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2002
With a brief text and boldly theatrical paintings, Radunsky constructs an allegory around the city of Brussels's fabled Manneken Pis, the bronze statue of a little boy merrily piddling a fountain. In Radunsky's version, the little boy has let fly because the town is being consumed by war and his parents are missing: "Poor little boy, he was scared. He needed his mother and father. But more than that he ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
