Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "halloween"
"Brroms Are for Flying", "Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea" and "Dinner at Magritte's"
An eclectic selection for hot days.
Brooms Are for Flying
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Michael Rex
This is a fun Halloween book. The text invites a young person to join in on the fun.
The illustrations are filled with friendly monsters. Are they really monsters? Find out when you get to masks.
Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Gail Gibbons
The illustrations take the reader into a submersible and down into the sea. Each layer is introduced as light gradually disappears until there is only darkness.
What lives in this water world of cold, little light and tremendous pressure? They are strange.
This is a good book to pique interest in the oceans.
Dinner at Magritte's
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Michael Garland
Magritte was a surrealist painter. In this story a young neighbor boy visits and so explores the world of surrealist painting.
Every illustration requires careful exploring to see what is really in it.
Brooms Are for Flying
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Michael Rex
This is a fun Halloween book. The text invites a young person to join in on the fun.
The illustrations are filled with friendly monsters. Are they really monsters? Find out when you get to masks.
Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Gail Gibbons
The illustrations take the reader into a submersible and down into the sea. Each layer is introduced as light gradually disappears until there is only darkness.
What lives in this water world of cold, little light and tremendous pressure? They are strange.
This is a good book to pique interest in the oceans.
Dinner at Magritte's
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Michael Garland
Magritte was a surrealist painter. In this story a young neighbor boy visits and so explores the world of surrealist painting.
Every illustration requires careful exploring to see what is really in it.
"Fat Bat and Swoop", "Storm Boy" and "Frog Girl"
Fun antics and interesting tales of the Northwest Indians made good reading this week.
Fat Bat and Swoop
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Leo Landry
This is a just-for-fun Halloween type tale. Fat Bat and Swoop the owl play a trick on Emily the cow. She ends up playing a trick on the two culprits.
The illustrations are definitely not realistic, but are still fun in this tale.
Storm Boy
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Paul Owen Lewis
This tale is told in the fashion of the Northwest Indians. This is totem pole country. A young prince is caught in a storm and carried off to a strange place of giant people in masks and ritual clothing. After a night exchanging gifts, the prince returns to his village to find a year has passed.
The illustrations are very good. They reflect a culture where figures were carved on totem poles, a culture where animals had souls.
At the end of the book is a page explaining about these people and their culture.
Frog Girl
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Paul Owen Lewis
Another tale told in the fashion of the Northwest Indians. A young chief's daughter is near a lake when she hears a voice calling her. It is a frog seeking her help.
Together they go to the frog's village to find all the residents are gone except for his grandmother. She asks the girl to bring back her family before something terrible happens to the girl's village.
The illustrations are beautiful reflecting the totems and buildings of the Northwest Indians.
At the end of the tale are pages explaining the imagery in the tale and about the Indians and their culture.
Fat Bat and Swoop
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Leo Landry
This is a just-for-fun Halloween type tale. Fat Bat and Swoop the owl play a trick on Emily the cow. She ends up playing a trick on the two culprits.
The illustrations are definitely not realistic, but are still fun in this tale.
Storm Boy
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Paul Owen Lewis
This tale is told in the fashion of the Northwest Indians. This is totem pole country. A young prince is caught in a storm and carried off to a strange place of giant people in masks and ritual clothing. After a night exchanging gifts, the prince returns to his village to find a year has passed.
The illustrations are very good. They reflect a culture where figures were carved on totem poles, a culture where animals had souls.
At the end of the book is a page explaining about these people and their culture.
Frog Girl
5 stars
Author/Illustrator: Paul Owen Lewis
Another tale told in the fashion of the Northwest Indians. A young chief's daughter is near a lake when she hears a voice calling her. It is a frog seeking her help.
Together they go to the frog's village to find all the residents are gone except for his grandmother. She asks the girl to bring back her family before something terrible happens to the girl's village.
The illustrations are beautiful reflecting the totems and buildings of the Northwest Indians.
At the end of the tale are pages explaining the imagery in the tale and about the Indians and their culture.
