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David Small at Kepler's - September 22, 2009 David Small’s Stitches: A Memoiris a heartbreaking story of David’s childhood in 50’s Detroit, Michigan. Unlike his Caldecott Honor winning work for children, the illustrations are stark and beautiful, delicate drawings in black, grey and blue ink and watercolor - a perfect backdrop for the story’s dark poetry: the industrial city, the lonely little boy in love with Alice in Wonderland, his unloving silent mother and his distant father, the hospital visit, summer vacation in Indiana at his crazy grandma’s, his operation and the loss of his voice, the visits with the "White Rabbit" who speaks the truth.There is a page in this book where only one sentence is spoken, but that single true sentence is the saddest sentence in the world. After it has been spoken, the next eleven pages are wordless - as they must be, because there are no words to describe the devastation and the sadness left behind. You’ll only hear the beating of your broken heart and you’ll let your tears drop on those pages as you turn them, slowly, until the words re-appear. And then, only then, you’ll understand that your heart must be broken to be mended. Share this triumph of storytelling and cathartic truth with those you love. --Aggie Z. |
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