Silent Movie
Black-and-white images follow one after another.
The story of an immigrant family alone in a big city.
Close-ups of a mother, a son -- faces filled with heartache and joy.
Plenty of action.
Excitement.
Melodrama.
A Silent Movie.
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Reviews:
"True to the tender melodrama of the great silent movies, this picture book in black and white tells a happily-ever-after immigrant story from the early twentieth century....Avi and Mordan both cite Chaplin as inspiration, and their book beautifully evokes the melancholy loner in City Lights." Booklist, starred review
"In Silent Movie, [Avi] approximates a two-hanky one-reeler about an immigrant family's travails and triumph, aided by C. B. Mordan's exceptional black-and-white ink-on-clayboard panel illustrations, which fit somewhere between woodcuts and a comic book." New York Times
"An ambitious and largely successful attempt to capture the magic of silent movies in picture-book format." Kirkus Reviews