Albert
and his family went mountain climbing. When they were going down, Albert fell
off a cliff! His parents looked everywhere but not found him. At this time, the
cloud children saw him falling down and spoke out some magic words. So Albert
became very light and was caught by the cloud children. After Albert slept over
a night in the cloud, these cloud children had breakfast, played jumping games,
and played cloud ball with Albert joyfully. While the clouds became darker and
darker, they made lots of thunderous noises. They swam in the rain, painted in
the rainbow, and had races in the wind. As Albert was left far behind, he nearly
was crushed by an airplane. Luckily, he walked to the other cloud children
through pain which the plane left. Although Albert seems to enjoy the time in
the cloud, he missed his home. He told to the queen and queen promised him that
she would make the cloud drift over his country. Before Albert’ leave, the
cloud children planned a party for him. Next evening, the cloud arrived and the
queen spoke out the magic words again. Albert returned home, but he still
thought whether he could go back to the cloudland by the magic words.
The illustrator used undulating line to compose every picture.
Artistic media: Composite Technique
John Burningham used photos as background,
and pasted hand-drawn pictures.
I
had dreamed and imaged to stand on the top of the cloud when going mountain
climbing in my childhood. As I grew up, I almost forgot this childlike imagination.
Thanks to this picture book, it reminded me something important. In the end of
the story, Albert tried hard to return to the cloudland. However, he could not
remember the correct magic words so that the cloudland remains innocent and
pure times somewhere in his heart.
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