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sducharme's review
5.0
I need to find this book again - mind-blowing in a way children (and adults) can understand and get meaning from.
pussreboots's review against another edition
5.0
If I had to point to one early childhood favorite who sparked a passion for books, art and poetry, the answer is easy: Remy Charlip. The other day I stumbled upon one of the books from my childhood that I had somehow missed, Thirteen by Remy Charlip and illustrated by Jerry Joyner.
Thirteen is thirteen stories told in one hundred and sixty-nine pictures. There are some with words but mostly it's just pictures. The stories are related but how they relates takes a page or so to figure out. It's one to read forwards and backwards as everything clicks into place.
The artwork is in the style of Arm in Arm, my all time favorite Charlip book. The soft pastel shapes blend and mix and change from one thing to another, while others tell apparently straightforward silent stories. One is just a two word comic of the prince endlessly trying on the remaining slipper as the woman replies, "Doesn't fit." All these things come to conclusions that either require a leap of faith or a sense of humor.
Fans of David Wiesner or Brian Selznick should check out Remy Charlip's books.
Thirteen is thirteen stories told in one hundred and sixty-nine pictures. There are some with words but mostly it's just pictures. The stories are related but how they relates takes a page or so to figure out. It's one to read forwards and backwards as everything clicks into place.
The artwork is in the style of Arm in Arm, my all time favorite Charlip book. The soft pastel shapes blend and mix and change from one thing to another, while others tell apparently straightforward silent stories. One is just a two word comic of the prince endlessly trying on the remaining slipper as the woman replies, "Doesn't fit." All these things come to conclusions that either require a leap of faith or a sense of humor.
Fans of David Wiesner or Brian Selznick should check out Remy Charlip's books.
bzzlarabzz's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book as a kid and I love it still. It has poignant little stories, beautiful watercolor pictures, and the most perfect tiny alphabet book all wrapped up in a lovely circle of a tale. I could just keep reading it forever. I hope I can share it with my granddaughter and that she will love it, too.
mat_tobin's review
5.0
Charlip has been an inspiration to many illustrators and children's authors, including Lauren Carlin and Lane Smith and, thanks to the New York Review Children's Collection, this collaboration with Joyner has found itself reprinted.
The number thirteen is a reference to the number of double-page spreads within the picturebook and the thirteen cumulative stories that take place within these pages: a form that I am sure Macaulay built on in the outstanding [b:Black and White|109548|Black and White|David Macaulay|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348599726l/109548._SX50_.jpg|1064298].
Possibly one of those first postmodern texts which play with the picture book as a form, it encourages the reader to turn pages backwards and forwards in order to follow the wordless stories throughout. It is as playful as it is sophisticated and it blasts open all concepts of what a picture book is and can be.
The number thirteen is a reference to the number of double-page spreads within the picturebook and the thirteen cumulative stories that take place within these pages: a form that I am sure Macaulay built on in the outstanding [b:Black and White|109548|Black and White|David Macaulay|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348599726l/109548._SX50_.jpg|1064298].
Possibly one of those first postmodern texts which play with the picture book as a form, it encourages the reader to turn pages backwards and forwards in order to follow the wordless stories throughout. It is as playful as it is sophisticated and it blasts open all concepts of what a picture book is and can be.
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