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Glowrushes / by Roberto Piumini ; translated from the Italian by Leah Janeczko.

by Piumini, Roberto.

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New York Review Books, 2023.

Painting -- Juvenile fiction.

Landscapes -- Juvenile fiction.

Sick -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Turkey -- Juvenile fiction.

9781681377506 (pbk.)

Stralisco. English

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124 p. ; 20 cm.

Artist Sakumat and eleven-year-old chronically ill Madurer forge a beautiful friendship as the painter brings landscapes to life in the boy's windowless rooms.

Long, long ago, a boy lies confined by sickness to a few windowless rooms. He can never experience the outside world, never breathe fresh air or feel the warmth of the sun on his skin, so his doting father summons a painter to embelish his rooms with beautiful murals. The artist sets to work, and soon there is a fabulous world on the walls, a colorful, shifting landscape peopled by shepherds and lovers, crisscrossed by armies and pirate ships. As the boy's health fades, the artist paints on, turning the simple commission into a labor of love. Can he show this child the richness and beauty of the world -- and of life itself -- with nothing paints and brushes?

Ages 9-12. New York Review Books.

Grades 4-6. New York Review Books.

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

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