![]() The illustrations are amazing and very Dali like in their appearance, which I love as Dali is one of my favourite painters. There are invisible people walking, a window of a building is filled with fish swimming and a dog is walking a man! There are so many strange and surreal things and the book doesn’t really make much sense but it’s more of a visual experience than anything else. The world beyond the mirror is very strange and completely surreal where nothing is what it first seems. The story is all about Toby’s adventure through the magic mirror and what he sees when he’s stepped through. ‘Through the Magic Mirror’ is a small book, around A4 in width and is filled with lots of thick and glossy pages of illustrations and a little text. This is such a surreal book and an amazing visual feast! Toby is bored and doesn’t know what to do with himself, he tries going downstairs but there’s nothing to do, so he goes back upstairs and spots something strange in the mirror. This book can be used for various different activities and I highly recommend it. I also used a picture from the book to discuss in a philosophy lesson about feelings. We also used it to sequence a narrative, showing the important features within different parts of the story-Beginning, middle, end or in other words-Introduction, event/dilemma, solution/resolution. We also used the book to compare real life to fantasy in this case before and after he walked through the magic mirror. We used drama to explore the characters feelings in the book and to show their understanding of different fantasy objects and characters. The children loved the story and found all the fantasy characters and objects amazing. I used this book as a theme for literacy in year 1, narrative unit on fantasy worlds. He walks through a fantasy world with an invisible man, a dog walking a man and various other things including a poster that comes to life. But he walks through a magic mirror into a fantasy world with fantasy objects and characters. Fed up of his toys, fed up with his books, he is fed up with everything. Ten different kinds of glass that reflect daylight, the lighting, and the valances, decorated with mercury pearls and restored in our workshops by a conservator trained at the Manufacture des Gobelins work together to bring magic and wonder through their optical effects and unique flickers of light.Through the Magic Mirror by Anthony Browne is a lovely picture book about a boy called Toby. This Magic Mirror is a real puzzle, with its structure made up of thousands of wood pieces and several hundred bevelled mirrors. ![]() ![]() Similarly to Salon Carousels that brought the atmosphere of funfairs from town to town, Magic Mirrors brought dance and amusement to villages where entertainment was rare. It was built in 1924 and entirely made of mahogany wood. This piece is one of the only six of its kind that remain in the whole world. Using mercury-pearled valances, chandeliers and other curiosities form his collection Jean Paul Favand beautified this “spiegeltent” (mirror tent) by enhancing the interplay of lights and reflections. It took two and a half days to assemble this antique travelling ballroom and several weeks to set up its decoration. This venue that arrived in October 2014 is the most recent within the Pavillons de Bercy.
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