Welcome to Day 18!
Unfortunately I am on a road trip for work and forgot my book for today!
I know!
How could I?
Good news is I’m getting home tonight so I’ll update it then 🙂
UPDATE!
I tried to think if I’ve ever been on an island.
I must have been,
but I can’t remember.
I would love to visit islands with all kinds of potential friends.
Hmmm.
Maybe I’ll have to write a story like that someday 🙂
Until then, here’s what I “read” today:
Title: The Island
Published by: Lemniscaat USA 2012
Illustrated by: Marije Tolman
Illustrated by: Ronald Tolman
Word Count:0
Pages: 32
in one word: Magical
In one sentence: Journey with Bear and decide for yourself the kind of adventure he has, going from island to island.
Favorite pages:
Great ending.
Likes:
- The illustrations are amazing. Filled with color and very joyful and kid-like.
- The large size of the book. That makes it feel magical too.
- There’s a hint of a storyline, but room to make it your own.
Learns:
- It’s nice to be able to interpret things the way you want to.
- A wordless book is a great way to pay attention to gestures we see around us. One small thing can convey so much!
- I love pages that are splashed with color, like these are.ok, let’s hope reading happens early tomorrow!
Until then,KE and SS
I finally have a copy of The Monstore by Tara Lazar just in time for Halloween. What’s a brother to do when he buys a monster that doesn’t do his job to scare and there are no refunds? Cute story. Thanks again for organizing this Kathy Ellen. It forces me to stop and read especially on busy days.
I love The Monstore. It’s been nominated for the Cybils award for the Fiction PB category. 🙂
I read “Archie” by Domenica More Gordon. There is very little text in this book.
I read “Eloise” by Kay Thompson. It was longer than I thought (over 50 pages). I recently re-read “Eloise Takes a Bawth” and decided to check out the original at the library.
Here is an interesting fact I learned: Liza Minnelli was Kay Thompson’s god daughter. Some say that the character of Eloise is based on Liza, although Kay Thompson has said that she was Eloise. Either way, this series definitely gets the 6-year old girl left alone to her own devices. And reading this helped fill in some of the gaps of the Bawth book.
Today’s book is LOCOMOTIVE by Brian Floca, 2013, A Richards Jackson Book for Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Simon & Schuster). This is beautifully written in free verse with gorgeous illustrations depicting everything you’d want to know about the first transatlantic railroad – from how it was built to the experience of riding it. The book is LONG. 60 pages! 2,573 words! And I’m not sure if that count includes additional information on the inside covers. As I read this, I felt a bit like I was taking the trip. Floca writes in a way that gets all the senses involved. And I learned so much. Did you know that two locomotives (and so two coal cars) were used in the uphill legs of the trip? Or that “…when the train is stopped, / when it’s time for dinner, / find the railroad restaurant, / find the hash house, quick. / It’s a dollar for dinner, / and twenty minutes to eat it — / don’t waste time! / If the chicken / tastes like prairie dog, / don’t ask why.” For young readers, it will take many sittings to read this book aloud, but worth it. And I’m sure the kids will spend lots of time looking at the pictures again and again.
Wow, this sounds like a fantastic book! I need to look for this one.
Today I read THE WAY BACK HOME by Oliver Jeffers. 2007 from Philomel Books. What a sweet book. The beginning of the book brought back memories of MOONPLANE, a picture book me and my boys loved a few in probably about 5 years ago. I don’t remember the author of that book, but it was one of those “quiet” books that people way publishers no longer want!
My son and I read The Unforgettable Season: The Story of Joe Dimaggio and Ted Williams and the Record-Setting Summer of ’41 by Phil Bildner. My son’s into baseball right now. 🙂
In keeping with the wordless book theme, I “read” Journey by Aaron Becker. It has gorgeous illustrations and a magical feel to it.
The Island sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing it.
For Day 18 we found “Take me out to the Yakyu” by Aaron Meshon, after seeing it here! My 5 yo baseball fan and I really enjoyed it. Very good find for learning how a shared pastime is celebrated in different ways across two cultures. The blue=US/red=Japan scheme worked well for clarifying where the boy was.
ZOOM by Istvan Banyal is one of the very first wordless books that caught my attention. It starts and with each page turn the scene shows a new perspective of what you were just looking at.