» Sunday, 24 February A.D. 2008
gossie
We picked up Gossie at the bookstore last weekend. which is a truly delightful children's book. How much do we like it? I went online looking for prints of some of the pages--pages in which joy leaps directly from page to eyeballs to neurons--the same night we bought it. We also immediately added every other book by the same author to our Froyd family wishlist on Amazon. And we have read the book at least 20 or 30 times since purchasing it, so much so that Becca has both it and the sequel--given to her Thursday evening by her grandparents and read numerous times since--memorized, as evidenced by her reciting them to her sister for entertainment this morning. Highly recommended.
In the book, there are two facing pages talking about what Gossie likes to do: “She walks backwards.” and “She walks forwards.” The pictures depict her walking to the left and walking to the right, respectively. And that made me wonder: would translations of Gossie in right-to-left languages like Hebrew flip the illustrations so she would be walking to the right for backwards and to the left for forwards?
posted by Nate @ 4:48PM