{"id":37962,"date":"2021-02-02T22:08:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T02:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37962"},"modified":"2021-02-02T22:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T02:08:59","slug":"review-of-the-imaginaries-by-emily-winfield-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37962","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Imaginaries, by Emily Winfield Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Imaginaries<\/p>\n

Little Scraps of Larger Stories<\/em><\/p>\n

by Emily Winfield Martin<\/p>\n

Random House, 2020. 80 pages.
\nReview written July 11, 2020, from a library book
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

This book is a worthy addition to the tradition of The Mysteries of Harris Burdick<\/em>, by Chris Van Allsburg. What you have are a set of fantastical paintings, each with a scrap of text, with the text usually shown as actually written on a scrap of paper.<\/p>\n

The caption that goes with the picture that appears on the front cover is \u201cLily wanted to be a good place to land.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of my favorites shows a monkey holding a key and says, \u201cAsk the monkey what he knows.\u201d It\u2019s written on the back of an envelope.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a picture of five children wearing dresses at the edge of a forest, and they have the heads of animals. The caption says, \u201cTheir parents never knew the secret.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few characters seem to appear in more than one picture.<\/p>\n

A note at the front from the author says that she found these scraps of words and pictures over the years, \u201cillustrations for stories that do not exist,\u201d in various places.<\/p>\n

I found one in a lighthouse, one in a packet of seeds, one in the trunk of a hollow tree.<\/p>\n

There was one tucked in the corner of a forgotten diorama, one hidden like a pearl in an oyster shell . . . one forgotten in a paperback from a used bookstore in Paris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These pictures will send your imagination circling as you browse them, and may provide seeds for all kinds of stories. <\/p>\n

A wonderful offering.<\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library book.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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