Genre: Children’s
Picture Book
Description:
“This unique picture book has neither human nor animal characters, but
instead features the wind speaking to the grass, explaining how long grasses
are both like and unlike the waves of the ocean. Through lyrical prose and
breathtaking impressionist-style paintings, the reader follows the wind’s
journey over sea and land: the many moods of the ocean, the different seasons
of the grassy field. We see glimpses of the birds that live off the bounty of
the ocean, and the birds and flowers that live among the grasses.
Through this nature metaphor, the story, without becoming didactic,
teaches children about seeing commonality and celebrating differences.”
Author:
“Karen A. Wyle was born a Connecticut
Yankee, but eventually settled in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana
University. She now considers herself a Hoosier. Wyle's childhood ambition was
to be the youngest ever published novelist. While writing her first novel at age
10, she was mortified to learn that some British upstart had beaten her to the
goal at age 9.
Wyle is an appellate attorney, photographer,
political junkie, and mother of two daughters.”
Appraisal:
My nine-year-old granddaughter who I call LBG read this book out loud
for me. She did pretty good. While I think it stretched her reading vocabulary
once or twice, she did a pretty good job. I was wondering how well she would
relate to a book with no characters, at least not characters in the way we
typically think of them. Instead the characters are parts of nature. I’m not
sure how much she picked up the underlying message of celebrating differences
(she’s pretty good about that kind of thing anyway). However, when she finished
reading the book to me and I asked if she liked it I got a big smile and two
thumbs up. Then she was off to play in nature, riding her bike outside with the
birds, next to the grass, with the wind blowing in her hair. Almost like she
was inspired by the book. I took that as an additional thumbs up. Three thumbs
up from LBG doesn’t happen very often.
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Format/Typo
Issues:
No issues
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 49 pages
1 comment:
How does this work on a Kindle, Al? Presumably it is one of those books that will definitely repay enjoying in a paper format?
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