The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
Author:
C. M. Millen
Illustrator:
Andrea Wisnewski
Publication:
2010 by Charlesbridge
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Picture Books
Pages:
32
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Theophane worked at his simple brown desk, writing simple brown writing like all of the rest.
But Brother Theophane isn't like the other monks. Sometimes he can't help but stare out the window and daydream. He knows there's more to life than brown ink, brown words, and brown books. If only he could open his brothers' eyes to the color and beauty of the world...
Lilting verse and glorious illustrations celebrate the scribes of the MiddleAges, who turned books into great works of art—and sometimes scribbled in the margins.
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Podcast
Ancient Manusripts
Released in 2022 by Plumfield Moms Podcast
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 32 min.
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Podcast
Ancient Manuscripts: How Books Were Once Made
Released in 2022 by Plumfield Moms Podcast
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 32 min.
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The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
Brother Theophane copies manuscripts in his monastery in “the mountains of Mourne,” but he also hides crumbs in his sleeve to sprinkle on the windowsill for the birds, and sometimes he gazes too long at the sun dancing on the pages before him...
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
Reviewed by Diane Pendergraft
Theophane does his work willingly, but has a difficult time concentrating. He carries crumbs left over from meals to the scriptorium so he can feed the birds who alight on the windowsill. He stops working to gaze at the beauty outside the window. This becomes so distracting to the other monks that the teacher of the scribes decides Theophane needs a new job. He is assigned to work in the pit of the tower stirring the cauldrons of boiling bark that is used to make the ink. Again, he works willingly, but it is a hot and exhausting job.
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