Reviews, Awards, Honors: Silent Movie

Review

Booklist:

“True to the tender melodrama of the great silent movies, this picture book in black-and-white tells a happily-ever-after immigrant story from the early twentieth century .  .  . Clear, beautiful ink-on-clayboard illustrations .  .  . evoke the historical period as they tell a story about making a movie of the American dream. .  .  . Avi and Mordan both cite Chaplin as inspiration, and their book beautifully evokes the melancholy loner in City Lights.”

Awards and Honors

ALA Notable, 2004
Starred Review, Booklist