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17th out of 66 books
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144 voters
Round Trip
by
Ann Jonas
This book isn't just the story of a round trip - it is a round trip! Read forward and look at the sights, the flip the book over to see something different on the way back. Ann Jonas's amazing two-way trip is guaranteed to change the way you look at things!
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
October 26th 1990
by Greenwillow Books
(first published April 1st 1983)
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Round Trip is an inventive and creative book. It has simple text that needs the illustrations to help the viewer understand the story better. The whole picture book is black and white full bleed illustrations, with no shading of gray. The story begins in the morning/daytime as we take a trip to the city. It is clear that this half of the story is during the day because the upper half of the images are white, signifying light. As the reader comes to the last page, they are prompted to flip the bo...more
This book was extremely interesting and very thoughtful and clever. I personally do not like post modern books, but I didn’t mind this one too much. This is a story about a trip taken into the city and their adventure there and what they saw, and then their trip back home. But there is more to the book and just the story of their trip to the city and back home and what they came across. The picture and the text go in the style of a round trip. You start off the story reading from left to right f...more
What an amazing black-and-white postmodern book! I like such design and such style. Also I like such feelings. It make me feel fresh and actually I have never seen such kind of book before. And I'm really curious about how the author can come up with these ideas to make such a picturebook with so much newness.
This book is full of metamorphosis and innovation because readers can read this book normally or upside down, the story will be continued whatever it is black or white. So it make me amazi...more
This book is full of metamorphosis and innovation because readers can read this book normally or upside down, the story will be continued whatever it is black or white. So it make me amazi...more
Round Trip by Ann Jonas is such an imaginative story that would be sure to catch the attention of readers at any age! The entire story is featured in a black and white color scheme that in a way represents day and night. This story also is like a two in one package. Reading the story normally would would get the understanding that it is day time, based on the white that is being displayed in the background. However, as soon as you think the story comes to an end, you are thrown for a loop which...more
This book’s cover is in all black and white, in a portrait style and looks like someone took an exact knife then did a pop up effect on some of the pages. When you get past the blank pages the title page of the book is same type of art as the cover but the name of publisher is upside down on the page. As you read the book from the beginning you find out that the first part is about going out and seeing things, as the story comes to the end of the book it asked that the book be turned around just...more
This book is beautifully designed for a playful interaction, where the reader may change their perspective at any time, to view parallel, but time shifted point in the story. As a child, and as an adult, I crave(d) a balance between freedom of exploration and a well manicured path in print, oral and digital stories. This book showed me that by slightly altering the balance from the expected ratio of "manicured path" to "exploration space", a known form (children's picture books) could provide a...more
I was very impressed with this book because of the illustrations and the format of turning the book upside down. It starts off as a trip from the country to the city. Since I knew that the illustrations would be turned upside down to see a different image, it was hard for my eyes not to flip the image in my head before I turned the book. The illustrations are in black and white; the use of these two colors allowed the images to become like optical illusions. This must have taken a lot of thought...more
A Reading Rainbow book! I remember getting this to read some time in elementary school. From the show I knew that one picture one way was another upside down. Still, I didn't remember what everything became. When I first started to read this book (this time around), I had trouble not looking up at the upside down words near the top, or looking for what the other pictures might turn out as. Soon I was able to just enjoy the book as it came along. This helped me be even more fascinated by things I...more
"Round Trip" was a very unique picture book. The black and white illustrations were abstract. First, you read it through to the last page and then you had to flip the book upside down and read back to the beginning. The idea is creative and extraordinary. On the way back, the same pictures take on a different meaning from the way you visualized them the first time through the story. The text and illustartions combined record the sights on a day trip to the city and then back home to the country....more
This book illustration's reminds me of a newer book called, Reflections. The story itself doesn't have an exciting plot, but the illustrations is where this book shines. Throughout the story, the illustrations are reflected where one half the page shows one scene and if you flipped the pages upside down, it's another scene. The book is only black and white which was great at the time, but I felt that it took a few moments to stop and determine what a particular scene was about. Maybe after readi...more
Round Trip is a really interesting black and white book. It gave me a headache because I was trying to look at the whole book at the same time. I found the book to be a little harsh with the sharp contrast between the black and white colors. The story for this book begins on the bottom of the book and once the reader gets to the end of the book the family arrives in the city. The reader must then flip the book upside down in order to read about the families’ journey home. It skillful shows all o...more
The illustrations in this book are reversible... or rather an optical illusion of sorts. When reading the story from front to back, the black and white illustrations are seen as one image, but turning the book upside down and reading the second half of the story back to front, the same illustrations create whole new images. These illustrations add to the theme of the title "Round Trip" because the book is literally a round trip! This is appealing to children because it is unique and fun to be ab...more
Round trip is a clever story about a family who travels into the city to spend the day. After all their adventures the reader turns around and travels back to the beginning from a different perspective.
This book is so clever. I loved looking at the pictures and seeing how they worked both ways. Some pictures I could easily see both directions. Other pictures I completely missed part of the picture until I turned the book around and finished reading the story. The different perspectives of the s...more
This book is so clever. I loved looking at the pictures and seeing how they worked both ways. Some pictures I could easily see both directions. Other pictures I completely missed part of the picture until I turned the book around and finished reading the story. The different perspectives of the s...more
Wow, what a creative and nifty book!! I had a blast reading the text and getting enthralled with the illustrations! Ann Jonas did a marvelous job with the creation of this book. The black and white theme really gave it the night and day look. The full bleed illustrations are very detailed and unique especially in the sense of reading one way and turning it around to read it the other way. What a fantastic idea! Kids will really enjoy reading this book and relate to a time when they went on a roa...more
Black and white pictures which illustrate a road trip to the city in the most unusual way.
Ann Jonas must be some kind of artistic genius. You read the book both ways. The beginning of the story is just like any other picture book. You read the page, look at the picture and turn the page. But there’s something different with the picture, and you find that when you get to the “end” of the book you flip it over and read back to the beginning. So the pictures that looked a little strange the first t...more
Ann Jonas must be some kind of artistic genius. You read the book both ways. The beginning of the story is just like any other picture book. You read the page, look at the picture and turn the page. But there’s something different with the picture, and you find that when you get to the “end” of the book you flip it over and read back to the beginning. So the pictures that looked a little strange the first t...more
I love this book! This book is actually read from cover to cover and then flipped and read cover to cover again! The pictures portray a totally new meaning when the book is flipped upside down. It's about a family who takes a trip and the first read is the going part. Once you get to the end, you flip the book upside down and start over and this time it's about the family returning home. It's such a neat book and the elementary kids will love it! It can be used to talk about point of view or eve...more
I do think that this book is one of my new all time favorites. I was not expecting much based on the cover, but the story is ingenious. The full bleed black and white illustrations perfectly portray the night/ day timeline (and even the theme of "round trip" or coming full circle) and incredibly enough each picture can be flipped upside down to become a completely new image. The text is simple, allowing the focus to be drawn to the pictures, but still tie in, moving the story along. Loved this o...more
Mar 05, 2012
Jordyn Mcleod
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I greatly enjoyed reading this book. It was very different from the other stories I have chosen to read. I found it very interesing and unique that once you finished the story you had to flip it over and continue to read. The illustations were very eye catching and they were in black and white. The pages were filled with full bleed illustrations that had no borders. The title is perfect for this story because it is if you are reading the story in a circle.
This is so interesting book. You can enjoy “round trip.” At first, you can trip one-way through the whole book, and then, turn it upside down and flip back!!! You can see a lot of things on the way back home. The color of illustrations is only black and white. It’s because this trip is round trip, hah I have seen such a picture, but never seen story. This is a clever scenario. It was so exciting to view and make sure whether what I saw is matched with words.
This book doesn't look like much, but turn it upside down and readers will see what it is all about before even opening the front cover. This book is so interesting being; readers should be able to see two views on the same picture clearly by simply changing one's view. Although the story line doesn't go into depth, the book teaches kids how one thing can look differently through another perspective.
Great read aloud, you read the book one way and then turn it upside down and read it backwards, the same drawings look differently in the two directions. I just brought it out again tonight. I used to read it to my students, and we are on a quest to find the perfect read aloud for Dante to read to his class for book month. He chose this one because it is so different.
Round Trip takes the readers onto a journey to the city and back. The illustrations are all in black and white and it covers the whole page, or full bleed illustrations. This gives readers a sense of what it is like traveling to the city from maybe a small town. I also enjoyed how it was all in black and white because it gives the city an industrial and modern look.
PB 19: I forgot all about this book! I remember loving it as a kid and I still think it is really neat as an adult. I love the pictures in this book and how when you get to the end you turn it around and the pictures upside down make new pictures. The story about traveling is good too, but the pictures in this book stand out to me more.
Aug 11, 2010
Lisa Vegan
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
those who like clever books & can refrain from groaning at gimmicks
Sometimes I’m a sucker for a gimmick. When they work, I can really appreciate them. For the most part, it works here. I can see that it took a lot of thought and effort to make this work well.
I really liked this book. The only reason it doesn’t get 5 stars from me is that I’m not completely wild about either the pictures or the story, but I love the gimmick.
The illustrations are all in black and white. The story consists of a short sentence on each page. The gimmick is that the reader reads thro...more
I really liked this book. The only reason it doesn’t get 5 stars from me is that I’m not completely wild about either the pictures or the story, but I love the gimmick.
The illustrations are all in black and white. The story consists of a short sentence on each page. The gimmick is that the reader reads thro...more
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LOOOOVEEEE THIS BOOK!!!! I think this is the most clever book that requires so much talent to make. The words are simple and easy to read but the illustrations will just BLOW you away! I think this is one of the few books I have read this year that I NEED to make apart of my own personal library!
Feb 17, 2012
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I had the pleasure of capturing candid photography at an elementary school last fall (2011). While there, the librarian read this book to one of the classes, and I loved it and was just as in awe as the little ones! Was VERY neat, and I can't wait to add it to my library.
This was a really cool book. The illustrations are so well thought out. This is a flip story. You read through the whole story once and then you flip the book over and read a whole new story. The illustrations become two different things based on what you read the first time.
This book is not big on plot (a day trip to the city and home again), but the design is innovative and exciting for a young reader. The book is read forward with its black and white illustrations and then flipped over and read back the other way, with the pictures now representing completely different elements since they are upside down.
A cleverly executed format that I still find amusing to look at.
A cleverly executed format that I still find amusing to look at.
This book was the first I have introduced of its kind. The fact that you read it normal (left to right) and then turn it around at the end and read it backwards to finish the story is wonderful. My students didn't understand how it worked, but loved it.
I've adored this book for a very long time. It's gimmicky, of course, but clever. And the illustrations are creative and lovely. Rereading it now, I got just as excited about the details of the story (which, really, is mostly illustrations) as I did as a kid.
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Oct 04, 2012 04:29pm