Bound To Stay Bound

View MARC Record
 Snow scene
 Author: Jackson, Richard

 Publisher:  Roaring Brook Press (2017)

 Classification: Easy
 Physical Description: [36] p., col. ill., 23 cm

 BTSB No: 484989 ISBN: 9781626726802
 Ages: 4-8 Grades: K-3

 Subjects:
 Stories in rhyme
 Snow -- Fiction
 Picture puzzles

Price: $6.50

Summary:
A playful guessing game set in a snowy landscape.

 Illustrator: Seeger, Laura Vaccaro

Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (08/01/17)
   School Library Journal (10/01/17)

Full Text Reviews:

School Library Journal - 10/01/2017 PreS-K— A guessing game leads youngsters from winter to spring in this quiet tour de force. The question, "What are these?" appears on a close-up of bark. A page turn reveals the answer, "Trees," as a stand of birches deep in snow-filled woods stretches across a spread. The questions continue: "And those?" next to purple splotches. The answer: "Shadows./Of crows." Each question is printed near a partial image that is completely revealed with its answer on the following page. Ice-covered branches and a girl with snow-flecked hair are included among the snowy landscapes that follow. Finally, dark, silent winter evening scenes give way to light, as the palette changes from deep purplish-blues to the bright blues, pinks, and greens of spring. Creatures appear after a winter sleep and earth surfaces through winter snow. A striking close-up of May flowers soon follows. All that's left of winter is a snow-capped mountain, described in delightful metaphor: "Winter's hat!" The acrylic paintings, all spreads, are lush and textured. The boy and girl who enjoy the winter woods and making a snowman reappear to relish such spring joys as romping in the rain and reading under a tree. The text is large and spare with one or two words on a page. VERDICT This perfect marriage of stunning illustrations and brief, often rhyming text in a question-and-answer format that will engage the lap set from the start is a first purchase.— Marianne Saccardi, Children's Literature Consultant, Cambridge, MA - Copyright 2017 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

View MARC Record
Loading...