( 15 reviews )
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 3 2009
This book is a great way to encourage a child's imagination, vocabulary, and developing logic. Children get to read the story without the boundaries or restrictions of the author's words, so children can embellish, expand, and make the story their own. I suggest you sit down with a child and allow them to "read" this story to you. It's so much fun and the children make the story bigger, more detailed with each reading. This is one book the children will want to keep and hand down to their children. Enjoy!
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Posted: May 26 2009
This is a simply yet eloquently drawn wordless book delivering a charming fantasy, undoubtedly influenced by David Wiesner but with a quite different artistic style. A girl is walking to school when she spies in the snow a red-covered book, which she recovers and carries in her book bag. During class she opens it and discovers that it is a portal to another book, just discovered by a boy on a beach. She is mesmerized by this scene until class ends and she straggles out behind her classmates. On the way home she buys a large bunch of balloons, which carries her into the air, and she drops the book. The boy at the other end of the portal is saddened by this, but is then delighted to look up from his book and find that the balloons have carried her to meet him. Meanwhile, someone else has found the red book... and so the story ends Wordless books do require more effort for adult readers, but they are excellent for helping children learn to interpret visual images, and afford an opportunity for self-"reading". This one is a straightforward, creative and easy-to-follow fantasy that would be a great step toward more complex stories. Older children will enjoy discovering the many layers of meaning embedded in the visual images. Younger children will enjoy pretending they are in this story, and it may lend a sense of wonder and potential to new, unknown books that they encounter.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 21 2009
Along with Zoom by Istvan Banyai, among the finest wordless storytelling I have seen. Simple enough for a five-year-old; haunting for anyone. Beautifully conceived and executed.
