The Hawk and the Dove - a bookwrap

 " Give Peace a Chance" 

( an anti-war song written by John Lennon)

Unwrapping

• "The Hawk and the Dove" 
  by Paul Kor
  
  
  * Age Range:  5-6
  * Grade Level:  PS-3
  * Hardcover:  32 pages
  * Publisher: Kids Can Press
  * Pub. Date: May 7, 2019.
  * Language:  English
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Unwrapping some beautiful illustrations 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Unravelling the book
  
  
  
  
  Alexander Pope an 18th-century English poet penned, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest." 
  
  
  A Hawk changes into a gentle dove because he's sad and oh so tired of the wars he witnesses around him.  Radical changes occur:  tanks turn into tractors, warplanes into butterflies, and the world becomes peaceful once again.  There are no more canons loudly blasting or bombs dropping from the sky. That results in making everyone happy and feeling safe and secure once more.  However this peace-loving dove is cautiously optimistic ... can his euphoric feelings last?  
  
  
  The late Paul Kor is an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator who bases his book on his experiences of the terrible wars that are raging around him.  His paper cut illustrations are beautifully executed and his message is very powerful. He encourages those that read this simple, profound book that by working together we can give peace a chance. He has included at the end of the book a notation that explains how this book was inspired.  I highly recommend it.
  
  
  
  
  

  Storywraps  Rating:  5 +++ HUGS!!!!!

  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  Meet Paul Kor

  ( wikipedia) 

  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  

  Paul Kornowski was born in Paris to a non-observant Jewish family who had emigrated from Poland. His father, Yitzhak, a tailor by trade, died in the Holocaust in Auschwitz, and the young Paul was smuggled to Geneva, Switzerland, together with his brother, where he lived as a refugee in a Jewish orphanage until the end of the war. During that time he studied art and graphics at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, and subsequently at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. At the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war he immigrated to Israel and joined the IDF as a volunteer in MAHAL (Foreign Volunteers). After his marriage to Pnina Tovbin, whom he met while in the IDF, he remained in Israel. Paul Kor retained his family name Kornowski, but used Kor to sign his works.

  In 2001, Kor died of lung cancer, at the age of 75. He was buried in the Kiryat Sha'ul Cemetery in Tel Aviv. He is survived by his wife Pnina and his two sons. In June 2008, a street was named after him in Tel Aviv, the city in which he worked and created for most of his life.

  
  

  In 1974, Kor began focusing on painting and illustrating children's books.^{[citation needed]} From the 1980s Kor was considered one of the most popular and most-loved children's authors in Israel.^{[citation needed]} In 1986, he published, through the Keter Publishing House, the book The Fish that Didn't Want to be a Fish, which creates the effect of changing characters. Later on, he wrote and illustrated The Hawk's Story.^[2] His best known book, Caspion the Little Fish, published by Zmora Bitan, starred for the first time a small silver fish which became the character most identified with Paul Kor as a children's author.

  Kor tells it: “On the table in my studio there lay an open box of cigarettes and a ray of sunshine fell on the silver paper and sparkled inside it and in a fraction of a second the idea was born to write a book about a silver fish".^[3]

  Caspion, which won the Ben-Yitzhak illustration prize from the Youth Wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, subsequently became a 3-book series (the other books in the series are Caspion in Danger and Caspion's Great Journey).

  In addition, Paul Kor published through "Zmora Bitan" the book The Magic Zoo, which was awarded the Nahum Guttman prize for illustration by the Tel Aviv Municipality. From then on, more children's books were published one after the other by "Kinneret Zmora Bitan", all of which enjoyed great success. Caspion was joined, among others, by Ben-Ben and the Fledgling, The Elephant who Wanted to be the Best,^[4] The Sultan who Wanted to Fly, The Boy who Loved the Moon, Flower, Flower, Don't Cry, Little Frog, Go to Sleep, The Most Beautiful Color in the World, The Little Climber and the Glowing Flower and other illustrated stories which enjoyed great popularity among both children and parents. A number of books were made into DVDs and children's plays which are still being played successfully to this day.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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