Their memories like ghosts, dance around them. Here is where you will break down from sadness as the girl plays her fiddle and farewells the building that conjures up the memories, while the father, tall and stoic, stands beneath the door frame. They are accompanied by the memories they are connected to that the man and girl recall of the things that were but will be no more. Turn the page and more canvases are on display. They are looking at what is and what will be washed away.
You sigh at the sight of various sized birds – a few flying, others squatting in grass tall wild grass, a tiny flower in the palm of a weathered hand, an eagle in flight, some blossomed wildflowers, a fox looking into the wilderness, two sheep with one grazing the other looking away, a man with a girl carrying a fiddle, a close-up of the girl’s face side-on, and one of the man’s in the same position. And that’s what you see when you turn the second page, a series of images canvases on display. There is a haunting beauty about them that makes you catch your breath at his ability to create such magnificent work that can easily be taken for an exhibition of canvases in an art gallery. I am filled with awe each time I view any of Levi Pinfold’s illustrations. The Dam is at once haunting, heart breaking, exhilarating and exquisitely simple, portraying so much emotion, you’ll want to weep with the beauty of it all. Today, I’m beyond thrilled to welcome her as a guest reviewer of, The Dam by David Almond and Levi Pinfold. She loves all books, in particular children’s books which for her, contain beauty and joy between the covers. Anastasia currently writes both articles and reviews and is a revered reviewer for Kids’ Book Review.
Her reviews and interviews have appeared in Bookseller & Publisher, Good Reading magazine, Australian Book Review, The Age, The Herald Sun, AllWrite, and many other publications.
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