Black and White by David Macaulay Module 4

Black and white.

Book Summary:
 There are four stories going on, and has a warning when you open the book. One is a boy traveling home by train and mistakes a flurry of torn newspapers as snow, and boulders on the track that can move by yelling at them.(turns out they were the cows from story two) Second story is a prison escapee who blends in with the cows, since they are Holstein cows( black and white) ,the third story is about a family who's parents work to hard and one evening come home dressed in newspapers and talk their children into following suit. They all seem to have a good time together enjoying family. While the four story is people waiting for a train that is delayed and what they do with their newspapers all because one woman decided to goof around while there is a delay.


APA Reference of Book:
Macaulay, D. (1990). Black and white. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.


Impressions:  I am not really sure about this book. The pictures were great and each story within it's self was great. But together in one book has me confused. I can see some strings that would tie these together but not all in one neat pretty bow. The link is of course the black and white cows, newspapers, and how they are mixed into the boy's travel. I was thinking this story would have been a little different. I liked it, but this one is a head scratcher for me.


Professional Review:
Warning that the stories here "do not necessarily occur at the same time" and that they may prove to be "only one story," the endlessly inventive Macaulay challenges readers to unravel an intricate puzzle in the form of four stories--simultaneously presented in the four quadrants of each double spread. Even the type styles, as well as the illustrative styles, are different; but alert readers will note common elements--a masked burglar, escaping cows, newspapers, trains--that serve different functions in different stories but that also serve to link them. They are linked, of course, and Macaulay slips in plenty of visual jokes and asides along the way; but even the most persistent puzzlers may conclude that he's been too clever by half. The journey here holds some interest, but the story concealed within the stories is hardly worth the effort.

(BLACK AND WHITE by David Macaulay. (1990, April 1). Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved July 11, 2014, from https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-macaulay/black-and-white-4/)


Library Uses :
This story to me would be a good intro. into cultures and how we are different but how we blend together to make something beautiful.