![]() Grace’s classmates aren’t deliberately cruel. Her own peers try to use her gender and her race against her, and just as the illustrations are life-like, the text is life-like too – undramatic, simple, and resoundingly true. That’s especially important for this story, in which Grace is struggling to overcome the limitations other people want to set for her. But the personhood it depicts leaps out of the page at you. And Caroline’s genius is that she achieves this powerful sense without photo-realism. ![]() You look at Grace and Mama and Nana, and you are POSITIVE that they are real people who agreed to pose for the illustrations. It’s not photo-realism, but it’s clear on every page that she must have taken the people in the book from life – she had models. ![]() Caroline Binch has created an extraordinary work of art here, precisely because the pictures aren’t “extraordinary” in the usual sense. ![]() Word person that I am, I’m still going to talk about the pictures first for Amazing Grace. Remarkable watercolor illustrations give full expression to Grace’s high-flying imagination.” So when she gets a chance to play a part in Peter Pan, she knows exactly who she wants to be. “Grace loves stories, whether they’re from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. ![]()
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