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6.22.07
This is such a great children’s story about a king who can’t tolerate noise. When his son is born he names him Prince Silencio. When the Prince gets older the King gives him the title Minister of Silence and his job is to stop anyone from making any noise. Then the King dies and the townspeople go crazy making all kinds of noise. Prince Silencio tries to join them in this noise party but they shun him away. After making so much noise, the townpeople realize they can’t hear anything anymore and ask Prince Silencio to come back and join them to even sound out. Prince Silencio represents silence visually as well. He is all white and wherever he goes, there is white around him. When the King dies and there’s a noise extravaganza, there is no white on the paper. When the Prince is invited back into the crowd there is a normal amount of white space around things. The style of the drawings is also pretty unique. There’s so much texture and pattern on the noisey people- it looks like it was block printed on top of paint. All of the characters have long skinny pink noses and pink cheeks. I just love everything about this book. It was originially written in French but translated into English. The author and illustrator Anne Hauberts has written and illustrated seventeen other children’s book as well as illustrated five books for other authors. She apparently also has made some comics for an older audience which I have to get my hand on. You can get this book here.
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