Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
Review: Pilu of the Woods
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Review: Free Fall
Free Fall by David Wiesner
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
2021 June 16
This is part of my 365 Kids Books challenge. For an explanation see my review for 101 Amazing Facts about Australia You can see all the books on their own shelf. Thanks to the marvelous people @chpublib and @ocplibraries who are keeping me supplied with all the Wiesner books.
More Wiesner!
As noted before I think, I really like when Wiesner just lets the illustrations stand on their own. I read somewhere that he created a nine-foot long painting while in art school. Of course he did.
The only thing I don't love about this book is that it is actually a book. I mean, I want it to be a frieze going around in a closed circle, the way I also want to see The Nursery Frieze. I like the way everything changes size and turns into something else, and the more I look at it, the more details I notice. Mentally it's all "oh, cool!" with each turn of the page.
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2009 March 31
This is so much fun to examine closely. And I like the Escher references.
Library copy
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Review: Tuesday
Tuesday by David Wiesner
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Frogs, then pigs, then? I love Wiesner.
Woofie loved it, not least because she could read it
2009 May 18
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Monday, June 14, 2021
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Review: Bowling Alley Bandit
Bowling Alley Bandit by Laurie Keller
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
AS fond as I am of Keller's picture books, and the original Arnie the Doughnut, this never quite worked for me. The jokes are corny, which is fine. But the story felt kind of all over the place. Tash only read a couple of pages before putting it down herself. It's hard to do early readers with engaging characters on a limited vocabulary. So, I hope Keller finds the magic and can produce books for this age. But this Arnie just gets a "meh."
And why is there only one female character in the whole thing?
Library copy.
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