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Reviewed by Kristie Ingerto for Readers' Favorite
The First Drawing, written and illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Mordicai Gerstein, is a beautiful book about life for a young boy before people created drawings and how he taught his family to see pictures and draw. This young boy lived in a cave with his family and would see things in the clouds, in the shadows, in everyday life, but no one else could see what he saw. One night he draws what he sees on the cave wall and suddenly his family is able to see what he sees. This boy teaches his family how to draw and the magic of drawing is discovered and shared, and to this day drawing is still magic!
Mordicai Gerstein based his children's book on the discovery of drawings on a cave wall in southern France. When these drawings were discovered they were found to be older than all of the other drawings that had been found at this time. Gerstein created this story as how he imagines the drawings to have been made and how drawing was begun, based upon the discovery in this cave. Also, there is an excellent message for children in this story as well: the boy did not give up on trying to help others see what he could see, even though no one encouraged him or believed him.
This is a well-written and well-illustrated children's book that will have a child's imagination running wild as he or she imagines life without art, without picking up a pencil and drawing.
