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Oct 30, 2000 · Allen Say was a billboard sign painter before he ever became a literary picture book sensation. There are several themes here which Say explores: follow your dreams, life is about making choices, expect obstacles, ups and downs (the roller coaster), and joys in your pursuit of your dreams.
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Oct 1, 2000 · Rick Riordan Ethan Young Ethan Young George C. Williams. Say scatters references to other artists through a typically elliptical tale of an itinerant painter and a man with a lonely, soaring vision. No sooner does the young wanderer step off a bus in a small town to take a job with a commercial artist than a new commission comes along: to paint ...
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Oct 30, 2000 · Through a simple text and extraordinary paintings, the reader learns of the temptation of safe choices and the uncertainties of following a personal dream. Here Allen Say tells a haunting and...
- 0547345917, 9780547345918
- Allen Say
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
Oct 30, 2000 · Early one morning a boy comes into town, hungry, and looking for work. He meets a sign painter who takes him on as a helper. The boy yearns to be a painter. The man offers him security. The two are commissioned to paint a series of billboards in the desert. Each billboard has one word, Arrowstar. They do not know its meaning.
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- Allen Say
Nov 5, 2013 · Early one morning a boy comes into town looking for work. He meets a sign painter who takes him on as a helper, and they are commissioned to paint a series of billboards in the desert. Each billboard has only one word, Arrowstar. They do not know its meaning.
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- 2000
- Allen Say
- Allen Say
Houghton Mifflin, 2000 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages. Early one morning a boy comes into town looking for work. He meets a sign painter who takes him on as a helper, and they are commissioned...
Houghton Mifflin, 2000 - Artists - 32 pages. A boy comes into a desert town and meets a sign painter who takes him on as a helper. The two are commissioned to paint a series of billboards in...
