Newspaper Article

All I See

Rylant, Cynthia

1999

Overview

There once was a man named Gregory who spent his days beside a lake painting pictures. He wore an old gray raincoat when he painted, and two brushes were tucked behind his ears. Sometimes as he worked he also whistled Beethoven's Fifth Symphony very loudly, waving his brush in the air through the exciting parts. Gregory's white cat lay beside him, sleeping through it all, the painting and the symphony. A boy named Charlie who summered at the lake used to watch Gregory paint and whistle and drift in his canoe with his cat. Charlie had decided he was fond of Gregory, though they had never met. So each day when Gregory drifted away, Charlie sneaked a look. And each day Charlie saw the same thing: a blue whale. Sometimes the whale was diving in deep water, sometimes it was leaping up out of the water, sometimes it was upside down. But it was always a whale.

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