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Posts Tagged ‘green’
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook)
A 2013 Caldecott Honor book!
This book shows not only many shades of green, all beautiful, but gives views into different parts of the world from many angles. We can see sings of a confident paintbrush and canvas, beginning with a forest, moving under the sea, then stopping for a quiet moment to honor limes, then peas. Tension rises again with a tiger peering through thick glasses. We see more animals, and nature in both day and night time. The book pauses for winter, noting “no green,” before ending with a picture of a boy planting, and a girl standing with her dad to look up at a tree, and the words “forever green.” There’s not really a plot, but we feel we’ve traveled to many green places, and done enough marveling to want to turn back the pages and look all over again.
Tags: color, green, Laura Vaccaro Seeger, nature, shades of green
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
and then it’s spring by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Erin E. Stead (Roaring Brook Press, 2012)
The colors in the letters of the title move from brown to green, and it’s not too much of a surprise that the book’s general colors follow likewise. Like the little boy, dog, and turtle at the center of the book, readers have to wait through a lot of brown ground to see more colors. But Erin Stead’s woodblock and pencil illustrations always convey warmth, and the robin’s egg blue back pages are sometimes seen in the varied sky. The boy who begins bundled up in hat, muffler, and mittens ends up barefoot and swinging from a tire over grass and the beginnings of flowers and vegetables he planted, with a delight we feel he well deserves. A perfect book for those of us who wait and watch for winter’s end!
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Tags: and then it's spring, Brown, Erin E. Stead, gardening, green, Julie Fogliano, picture books, Roaring Brook Press, spring, woodblock illustrations
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
We’re close to spring. I can feel it. This may very well be the most mild winter I’ve ever experienced. It’s not even March and already I can see little bits of green poking up in my flower gardens as my daffodils and tulips emerge. This has put me in a mood for the color green! So, for this week’s puzzler, I’ve collected ten green covers of popular picture books. Can you name each book from the small glimpse of its cover? Put your guesses in the comments below and I’ll be back at the end of the week with the answers. Think spring!
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What color puts you in the mood for spring?
Tags: children's books, children's literature, covers, green, picture books, puzzler, quiz, spring, Trivia
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press, 2011)
Here we get a lot of green and white and a sense of how memories link generations. The grandfather’s story is told by his busy, imaginative, and plant-loving grandson. Rabbits, birds, flying pigs, and trees have starring roles, though all eclipsed by pruned bushes. The bent is toward happiness, which is the way Grandfather remembers: a wedding and marriage get twice as much space as the war in which he fought. Pages fold out at the end to give us four pages offering the idea that a garden may remember more than any person can.
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Tags: family, garden, grandfather, Grandpa Green, grandson, green, history, lane smith, Roaring Brook Press
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books, 2011)
This big book with big pictures and small words, averaging less than a sentence a page, much like Henke’s Caldecott Award-winning Kitten’s First Full Moon, will appeal especially to young children. The story is an adventure away from home, but without Peter Rabbit’s naughtiness. This rabbit hops along with bouncy hope, exercising his imagination, which is not so much a vehicle for fantasy as compassion, which seems Kevin Henke’s sort of imagination, too. Little White Rabbit wonders what it would be like to be green, like grass, or tall, like trees, as still as a rock, or to flutter like butterflies, before he ends up safe at home, where, while his brothers and sisters sleep, he’s the bunny with the roving eye. The front cover is pink and the back is green under the book jacket, and green and pink dominate: from clover and rabbit-nose through grass and trees. We can almost smell spring.
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Tags: adventure, bunny, green, Kevin Henkes, pink, rabbits, spring, white
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