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Title: Out of the Shadows
Subtitle: An Artist's Journey
Author: Neil Waldman
Narrator: George Guidall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-25-14
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
As his parents shouting tears through the walls to the room where he is supposed to be sleeping, young Neil Waldman buries his face in his pillow and tries to swallow his tears. The trauma of his parents fighting rips at him, but it will also open the path to Neils career as an artist. Seeking refuge from a turbulent home life, Neil and his three siblings turn to the world of creativity. Their mothers book from an art museum in Russia is all the children need to set fire to their imaginations. And from there, drawing and painting become much more than pleasurable diversions - they become lifelines of hope that allow the youths to believe that there is lasting beauty in the world.
Recipient of the ALA Notable and Parents Choice Awards, Waldman has written and illustrated more than 50 books for children. Narrator George Guidall delivers a powerful performance of the authors engaging memoir.
Critic Reviews:
Waldman offers an engaging, insightful story of how childhood experiences informed his career.Booklist
Members Reviews:
A spirited account of an artist's beginnings.
It was a well written account of the beginnings of a well known writer and illustrator, which also included numerous examples of not only his own work, but that of some of his family members!
love that Waldman
My sister found this book, what a wonderful read about the creative journey of a great mind. It inspired me and backs up the notion of doing all we can to build our kid's creative processes.
Portrait of the children's book author as a young man
If a person wanted to tell the story of their life in a biographical format, why would they choose to make their intended audience children rather than adults? Maybe the person in question would feel that children could better appreciate their life and accomplishments. Or maybe they're unsure of their writing skills and thought that kids rather than grown-ups would be easier to write for. Maybe they are of an artistic temperament and feel that if they spotted their book with beautiful glossy illustrations, kids would gravitate more readily to that aspect of the story. And maybe they've always seen their childhood, rather than adulthood, as the part of their life with the best narrative, and unless a biography has copious amounts of abuse in it, adults aren't going to be as interested as children. For artist Neil Waldman, his motivation for writing, "Out of the Shadows: An Artist's Journey" for children may have knowingly or unknowingly have their roots in all of these reasons. The book is lovingly put together, with fantastic pieces of arts spotting the text. It is not, perhaps, the first autobiography I would hand to children that need to read one for school, but it may contain some of the best explanations on how a person truly becomes an artist. It's flawed but worthy.
Neil Waldman was born in the Bronx, one of the first American-born children of his Russian/Galician immigrant relatives. At family gatherings, Neil would often have to face the inevitable question that began, "You are our family's first generations born in freedom. So what are you going to do with it? What are you going to be when you grow up?" A hard question for a child at any age, but early on little Neil hit upon what he wanted to be. An artist. When he found his mother's book of Vincent van Gogh paintings, Neil discovered a love that would last him his entire life.
