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Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (1998, Hardcover) 
Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (1998, Hardcover)

 
Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (1998, Hardcover)

Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385322399
ISBN-13: 9780385322393
Product ID: EPID251945
Description: When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.
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Synopsis
When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.

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Publication Date:1998-10-01
Illustrator:Chris K. Soentpiet

Size
Length:32 pages
Height:11.5 in
Width:8.8 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:14.4 oz

Publisher's Note
A poetic tribute to children and the bonds they feel with their community, this is the story of a girl's search for "something beautiful" that leaves her feeling much happier, for she has experienced the beauty of friendship and the power of hope. Full-color illustrations.

Everyday a young girl is disheartened by the things in her neighborhood: the trash on the streets, the graffiti on the walls, and the homeless woman that sleeps in a box. When she learns the word "beautiful" at school, she sets out to find "something beautiful" in her surroundings. In her search, this little girl learns to see beyond the barren ugliness of her environment to find beauty in her friendships, her family, and herself.

Industry Reviews
"Soentpiet's paintings use light and shadow to make the images reach out from each double-page spread, and the faces of the individual characters have an emotional articulation that will draw in readers and viewers."
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Janice M. Del Negro (12/19/1998)

This moving picture book offers a shining testament to the ability of human beings to find "something beautiful" in even the most unlikely places. An African American girl initially sees only the ugliness of her neighborhood. There is "trash in the courtyard and a broken bottle that looks like fallen stars." On her front door, someone has scrawled the word "DIE," and a homeless lady "sleeps on the sidewalk, wrapped in plastic." Searching for something beautiful "something that when you have it, your heart is happy" she polls various neighbors. For an old man it is the touch of a smooth stone; for Miss Delphine, it's the taste of the fried fish sandwich in her diner; for Aunt Carolyn, it's the sound of her baby's laugh. When the girl decides to create her own "something beautiful," she picks up the trash, scrubs her door clean and realizes, "I feel powerful." Wyeth's (Always My Dad) restrained text is thoughtful without being didactic. She creates a city landscape that is neither too dark nor too sweet; and her ending is just right, with the heroine's mother saying that her daughter is her "something beautiful." Soentpiet's (Peacebound Trains) paintings are luminously lifelike. Whether depicting the girl running past a chain-link fence in a dark alley or Miss Delphine's patrons sitting beneath the rows of glinting glasses, the paintings focus on a community with characters so real, readers can almost feel the sunlight on their faces. All ages. (Sept.)
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