Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "exercise"
"The Most Boring Book Ever", "The Bird, the Monkey and the Snake in the Jungle" and "What Would Happen if You Never Left the Couch?"
All three, although very different in subject, offer the imagination room to work.
The Most Boring Book Ever
5 stars
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Illustrator: Kazu Kibuishi
The text is so simple and definitely boring. A boy sits in a chair.
Looking at the illustrations tells another story filled with excitement. They are definitely not boring.
The Bird, the Monkey and the Snake in the Jungle
4 stars
Author: Kate Banks
Illustrator: Tomek Bogacki
This is a rebus book where many of the nouns are replaced with pictures. There is a sidebar listing the pictures with the nouns they replace.
It seems the bird, the monkey and the snake live at different levels in the same jungle tree. The tree falls down leaving the three without a home. They go in search of a new tree to call home.
The illustrations are part of the story as the rebus pictures fit into them. This leaves them very stylized.
What Would Happen if You Never Left the Couch?
4 stars
Author: Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Illustrator: Anna Mongay
This is nonfiction about diet and exercise.
The boy is happily sitting on the couch playing a video game and hates to stop. Each page gives something that would matter to a couch potato and the consequences to them.
The illustrations show all the actions and the consequences in lively, colorful fashion.
The Most Boring Book Ever
5 stars
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Illustrator: Kazu Kibuishi
The text is so simple and definitely boring. A boy sits in a chair.
Looking at the illustrations tells another story filled with excitement. They are definitely not boring.
The Bird, the Monkey and the Snake in the Jungle
4 stars
Author: Kate Banks
Illustrator: Tomek Bogacki
This is a rebus book where many of the nouns are replaced with pictures. There is a sidebar listing the pictures with the nouns they replace.
It seems the bird, the monkey and the snake live at different levels in the same jungle tree. The tree falls down leaving the three without a home. They go in search of a new tree to call home.
The illustrations are part of the story as the rebus pictures fit into them. This leaves them very stylized.
What Would Happen if You Never Left the Couch?
4 stars
Author: Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Illustrator: Anna Mongay
This is nonfiction about diet and exercise.
The boy is happily sitting on the couch playing a video game and hates to stop. Each page gives something that would matter to a couch potato and the consequences to them.
The illustrations show all the actions and the consequences in lively, colorful fashion.
