this is one of the most difficult books I have read. It is a brilliant picture book, as usual when it comes to the Norwegian poet Gro Dahle. Her text is brilliant, beautiful, with well thought out language design, and Kaia Dahle Nyhus take advantage of both the color and shape to the utmost in his expressive images.
”Sesame, Sesame” is about the brothers Al and Kas, who sleeps in a bunk bed in their common rooms, and thrive together. ”Nice to be in the dark and hear my brother breathe”, does the Al on the evening. Al and Kas parts on the computer as well, even if Kas dominate for the most part, because he is the big brother. Sometimes he takes with his mates home, the where of them as my mother calls ”the forty robbers” because they are so numerous, so noisy, so hungry. Al backs away, and then ask for Kas him to go out of the room.
disappeared get Al the computer itself, start it and meet, for the first time in his life, porn. Kaia Dahle Nyhus do nothing to mitigate the shock, here is a naked woman on all fours and cries out ”YES!” to the man behind her.
Now, would never the Norwegian bilderboksskaparna leave a child in the lurch with such an experience, and instead to tell the quiet and wise about how first her mother and then Kas soothes Al. ”An imagination”, explains the mother, ”it is not for real, it is just a movie, not real” says Kas, and adds: ”It is not for children”.
”Sesame, Sesame” is a very good book for a child who needs to be able to handle the mind-boggling experiences he or she meets online. And, believe me, children face things like that much earlier in the day than adults. Personally, I think quite often on the fjortonåringen who was interviewed in the Swedish newspaper svenska Dagbladet this summer, and with concern, said it is a shame that school takes up such things when you go to high school, because it is on the primary school that most people see it for the first time.
Kaia Dahle Nyhus, they can the studies that talk about that many preschoolers have already seen most of the time. ”Sesame, Sesame” responds to a need that exists, just as the Sprout Dahles and Svein Nyhus earlier books on domestic violence, mental illness and incest.
Then it’s perfect if talented bilderbokskonstnärer and poets make books that explains the pornography for the children who have already encountered it?
Still, I am very, very hesitant. Given: ”Sesame, Sesame” is an excellent book for anyone who has a child at home who seems to have had that kind of nätupplevelser. But what happens if the child has seen something similar? All children do not really have the experience. In this case it is the adult world that forces on the child a statement such as the child never asked to know, and then it becomes really uncomfortable.
no object when it comes to ”Sesame, Sesame”, it is an impressive book. But educational and psychological adults should deal very carefully with the book. It is certainly not for everyone.
