Welcome to Day 12!
How many times have you moved?
I never moved as a kid,
well, switched schools, but that’s not a pack-up-and-move move.
I’ve made up for it as an adult though, let me tell you.
I saw this one and thought the theme was handled very well.
Plus, it was originally printed in Switzerland
I love finding books that started out their lives in another country!
Without further ado:
Title: Tim’s Big Move
Published by: NordSud Verlag AG, distributed in US by NorthSouth Books, 2012
Written by: Anke Wagner
Illustrated by: Eva Eriksson
Word Count: 592
Pages: 28
In one word: Reassuring
In one sentence: What’s a boy to do when his stuffed animal doesn’t want to move?….move anyway, and help him face his fears.
Favorite pages:
Likes:
- The opening sentence: “Tim is very nervous.” After that, the book could go in so many directions!
- The use of white space. There’s lots of illustrations on the spreads, and I think without the white space it wouldn’t be as pleasing to look at and could be overwhelming.
- Did you see the expressions on Pico? Priceless!
- The font is bolded and offset when Pico feels an emotion strongly. I like how it makes his words jump off the page.
Learns:
- Setting your character up with an opposite is a fun way to build and release tension.
- Having a child “play the parent role” (in this case, talking down his stuffed animal!) is fun.
- A 28 page book? Never seen one of those before!
What are you all reading on this beautiful Saturday?
Until next time,
KE and SS
Today I read “Bear in the Air,” written by Susan Meyers and illustrated by Amy Bates. This book was published in 2010 by Abrams Books For Young Readers. Like many stories about personified stuffed animals, it involves a teddy bear getting lost and going on adventures before it is finally reunited with its owner. In this case, the bear is lost at the beach, and so it gets to journey through the ocean. For this reason, this book kind of reminded me of “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,” although unlike that middle reader, this picture book is written simply and in verse.
This, by the way, will be my last teddy bear book for this month. I am almost done with bunny books, too. Then it will be time for something else!
I like your knowledge of bunny and bear books, Lily!
I haven’t read any in those categories for a while 🙂
I read There’s Nothing to do on Mars by Chris Gall. Davey Martin, a boy who is easily bored, jumps from adventure to adventure. I enjoyed the retro feel of Chris Gall’s illustrations in this book.
Sounds fun.
Retro illustrations are rad 🙂
I have moved 28 times, not that I am counting or anything. And no, I was not a military brat.
I read “Pancakes for Supper” by Anne Isaacs. It wasn’t exactly what I had expected, but it does have a recipe for pancakes on the back cover. A friend had suggested it, not knowing I had already checked it out from the library.
28 times!
I think you win an award!
Wow!
Pancakes for supper sounds like a great idea; good thing there was a recipe.
I don’t know about an award. I still remember though sitting with a bunch of coworkers a few years back when one of them (who had moved a lot because he was in the military) asked as an ice breaker, how many times we had moved. As I sat there counting to myself, he gave me this look, and then was shocked when I told him the number, and that my family was not military. I knew I had moved a lot, but had never really thought about it much until that point.
I read WHO’S ON FIRST? by Abbott & Costello, illustrated by John Martz, 2013, Quirk Books. Word count? About the same as it was back in the 1930s when this bit was first created by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (there were a variety of versions over the years). I’m glad it can be shared with kids today in picture book format.
I think younger kids will be confused by it, but will love the pics. Older kids who will understand and appreciate the text may find the illustrations too childish. But the illustrations are cute and I love the colorful backgrounds on the pages.
I read this one in Barnes and Nobles and was laughing so loud that someone came to me to ask me for book recommendations! I agree that younger kids could get confused, but would LOVE It if you explained it. The colorful backgrounds are great!
Today I read Hey Mama Goose by Jane Breskin Zalben. It was really cute. I loved the way she took the nursery rhymes and tied them together into a cohesive story. I also liked the fact that my kids were hearing these nursery rhymes.
This sounds great, Kirsten!
I love when stories get tied in together, and I’d never heard of this one.
A MG that does that is “A tale Dark and Grimm” and I think he’s written two more too.
I’ll have to check this out!
I love nursery rhymes.
I can still sing some to this day!
Today I read STEAM TRAIN, DREAM TRAIN by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Illustrations by Tom Lichtenheld. I love rhyming books, so this was nice. Published in 2013 by Chronicle Books.
That is a GREAT one!
Have you read their other one, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site?
The stories are both great, and the illustrations are perfect.
Love those books!
I think, since being married, we’ve moved 8 times. Today I read Princess Sophia Gets Scared published in 2013 by Picture Window Books. The story was in 2nd person pov, which I might try writing one sometime.
8 times.
That’s a lot!
Oooh! 2nd person!
I love writing letters and I would write everything in second person if I could get away with it.. I’ll have to check this one out!
Today I read “That is NOT a Good Idea!” by Mo Willems.
I have now posted this for the right day! LOL
like I said, no worries, Debbie 🙂
And again, that book’s hilarious!
I read CHLOE AND THE LION by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Adam Rex. I went to Hicklebee’s to have Adam sign some books, but the first person I saw when I walked through the door was Mac–what a treat to have both of them sign the book!
For day 12, I read THE GHOST IN THE CELLAR by Jacques Duquennoy. I did not enjoy this one as much as THE GHOST’S TRIP TO LOCH NESS. But it had some quirkiness to it. The ghosts Aunt Gigi came to visit and she was inviting them to her 500-year-old birthday celebration.
This book was 329-words.
For Day 12, one book was “Baby Parade” by Rebecca O’Connell and illustrated by Susie Poole. I primarily picked this up at the library because my toddler loves to see illustrations of babies. It’s a cute book- simple, introduces colors, shows a variety of way a baby can be moving (in a stroller, baby sling, wagon, crawling, etc.) We will read it a couple more times before it is due back.