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laurus_nobilis) wrote2007-04-26 12:43 pm
laurus_nobilis) wrote2007-04-26 12:43 pm
This explains sooo much.
You know how they say that what you read as a kid affects you later in life? Or at least it shapes your reading tastes? Well...
My mum and I were putting things in order this morning (I'm still moving in, sigh) and I found a book from when I was really little. I might have been five or so when I read this; it's aimed at kids who're still at kindergarten. I was skimming through it for nostalgia's sake, and... let's just say that the icon is not random. XD
Honestly, this deserves a summary, with pictures and everything. So here you go: Alelí y el payaso Bumbum, by Syria Poletti. Also known as "the source of most of Laurus's obsessions" and "the beginning of the end".
It looks like a regular day at kindergarten, and kids are making dolls with paper and cotton and stuff.
Except that it's spring, and there is magic! :O So some of the dolls come to life. Kids aren't surprised because, hey, they're kids.
Lorena makes a pretty paper ballerina named Alelí. Everyone likes her because she dances around and she's a lot of fun.
Julio makes a clown named Bumbum, but he isn't exactly an artist. Lorena thinks Bumbum is an ugly doodle, and lets him know. She's headed for a Mean Girl in High School career at this point.
But Julio doesn't mind that Bumbum is so ugly, and loves him anyway because it's his own drawing and they're Friends. Laurus starts wondering if she should make an LJ post about this.
Alelí isn't as mean as her owner, so she befriends Bumbum too. Lorena is Not Happy about this.
Yes, there's a punctuation mistake in that vignette.
Then, Tragedy strikes. And because it's Tragedy and this is a book for five-year-olds, no drawing here. Lorena tries to grab Alelí so she won't play with the ugly clown, and accidentally rips her leg. But it gets even worse: Alelí isn't alive anymore. She's just a paper doll again.
The kids put away all their stuff to go home. While everyone's too busy being depressed about Alelí, Bumbum sneaks into Lorena's bag to find her. He gives her one of his own legs, and she revives because of the Power of Friendship. (No, not Love. This is a book for little kiddies.)
The good news is that paper dolls are easy to fix. Alelí gets a new leg, and Julio draws a new leg for Bumbum. He also gives him a bit of cosmetic surgery while he's at it. Bumbum still looks like a five-year-old's doodle, but a slightly prettier one because Julio is a lot more confident in his own skills now.
And now they're all friends. Lorena learns that you can be Beautiful Inside, Julio learns that the important thing is doing things with love even if you don't have a lot of talent, and Laurus learns about the origin of her collection of characters with a Frankenstein complex. The End.
Hee. And all these years, I'd been wondering how did all of that start... I couldn't remember where I'd seen it first. Ende? Edward Scissorhands? Coppelia, even?
Turns out that Little Laurus was headed this way much earlier than that. :O
My mum and I were putting things in order this morning (I'm still moving in, sigh) and I found a book from when I was really little. I might have been five or so when I read this; it's aimed at kids who're still at kindergarten. I was skimming through it for nostalgia's sake, and... let's just say that the icon is not random. XD
Honestly, this deserves a summary, with pictures and everything. So here you go: Alelí y el payaso Bumbum, by Syria Poletti. Also known as "the source of most of Laurus's obsessions" and "the beginning of the end".
Except that it's spring, and there is magic! :O So some of the dolls come to life. Kids aren't surprised because, hey, they're kids.
Lorena makes a pretty paper ballerina named Alelí. Everyone likes her because she dances around and she's a lot of fun.
Julio makes a clown named Bumbum, but he isn't exactly an artist. Lorena thinks Bumbum is an ugly doodle, and lets him know. She's headed for a Mean Girl in High School career at this point.
But Julio doesn't mind that Bumbum is so ugly, and loves him anyway because it's his own drawing and they're Friends. Laurus starts wondering if she should make an LJ post about this.
Alelí isn't as mean as her owner, so she befriends Bumbum too. Lorena is Not Happy about this.
Yes, there's a punctuation mistake in that vignette.
Then, Tragedy strikes. And because it's Tragedy and this is a book for five-year-olds, no drawing here. Lorena tries to grab Alelí so she won't play with the ugly clown, and accidentally rips her leg. But it gets even worse: Alelí isn't alive anymore. She's just a paper doll again.
The kids put away all their stuff to go home. While everyone's too busy being depressed about Alelí, Bumbum sneaks into Lorena's bag to find her. He gives her one of his own legs, and she revives because of the Power of Friendship. (No, not Love. This is a book for little kiddies.)
The good news is that paper dolls are easy to fix. Alelí gets a new leg, and Julio draws a new leg for Bumbum. He also gives him a bit of cosmetic surgery while he's at it. Bumbum still looks like a five-year-old's doodle, but a slightly prettier one because Julio is a lot more confident in his own skills now.
And now they're all friends. Lorena learns that you can be Beautiful Inside, Julio learns that the important thing is doing things with love even if you don't have a lot of talent, and Laurus learns about the origin of her collection of characters with a Frankenstein complex. The End.
Hee. And all these years, I'd been wondering how did all of that start... I couldn't remember where I'd seen it first. Ende? Edward Scissorhands? Coppelia, even?
Turns out that Little Laurus was headed this way much earlier than that. :O
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... but it really does explain a lot, doesn't it?
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I'd love to do a retelling of this story.
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For the love of my life, I can't remember what on Earth I was reading when I was five. In part because I learned how to read on my own, watching TV (I'm not kidding). I do recall reading a story about candy, and this version of Karen's shoes by Andersen -because, butchered at it was and even without the religious undertone, it was HELLA CREEPY OMG HER FEET WERE CUT OFF NOES. But really, when I try to remember books I read that I loved, it's all from late primary school or early junior high.
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*usando el mejor icono posible*
Yo de niña crecí leyendo una colección de cuentos clásicos (ahora mismo solo recuerdo uno sobre un sapo que era tan presuntuoso respecto a su tamaño que termino explotando O__O), Calvin & Hobbes, Mafalda, y los Selecciones Reader's Digest viejitos que duraron muchos años en mi casa, es más creo que aun esta uno que sobrevivió a varias mudanzas, que tenía un buen articulo sobre Groucho Marx. Existe un cuento sobre una bruja que se divertía mucho volando y ayudando a la gente que de verdad echo de menos, pero nunca fue mio lo leí en una biblioteca :(