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Reflections
by
Ann Jonas
"In Jonas' latest tour de force of trompe l'oeil, each double-spread serves twice: as in Round Trip, the book is reversed for a return journey, in this case from forest to seaside....A rain cloud becomes a flock of ducks, a ferry upends to a restaurant....Fascinating."--Kirkus Reviews.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 21st 1987
by Greenwillow Books
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Reflections is a very imaginative story by Ann Jonas. The text interacts with the illustrations to create an interactive, non-traditional children's picture book. The story tells the events of the day, and on the last page the character turns around and the format forces the reader to flip the book over and read the upside-down text. The illustrations are created in such a way that once flipped upside-down they show the image of the new correlated text. It is a very unique style and very har...more
This book amazed me with its illustrations! Reading each page, you feel more engaged because you have to flip the book upside down to read the other half of the page (because half the story is written upside down). As you read each page, you can't help but take a second to re-look at the illustrations a few times to see the differences when you view them in both ways. I felt like I was more focused with the illustrations than the actual story. The overall reading experience was fun and I think c...more
I think this was an imaginative non-traditional picture book which I really enjoyed. The pictures full page spread were so unique too look at. I thought having the text upside down depending which way you read the story was great. How she drew these pictures blending into each other with a mirror effect just amazing. I thought it was also a nice walk in the day of the reader the story. This almost felt like someones journal entry after they took a walk through thier town.
It is amazing how she does her illustrations. One could definitely get lost in this book trying to figure out how she does these illustrations so well. Text is definitely secondary to the illustrations.
cool reversable pictures. Although this has color, I think Round Trip does the concept better.
trippy cool....maybe more huzzah for adults, but thats cool.
We found round trip to be a lot better
This book is awesome. It was so fun to read through and then turn around and read again. When you first start to read through it, the illustrations appear to flow with the text, but even when you turn it upside down they make sense! I really enjoyed this book and found it to be creative.
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