What Is a Wall, After All?

Read and Wonder

by Judy Allen, Alan Baron (Illustrator)

Rhythmical verse and wacky illustrations journey around the world to look at different types of walls, describing their various uses, how they are constructed, and intriguing aspects of famous walls.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published August 2, 1993

About the author

Judy Allen is an award-winning author whose novel Awaiting Developments was short-listed for the Whitbread Children's Novel Award.

Judy Allen, along with illustrator Tudor Humphries, created Kingfisher's award-winning Backyard Books series and many other successful books, including the Reading Rainbow selections Tiger and Seal.

Reviews

[Michael Camilleri]

Really enjoyed the illustrations. Mr Baron creates clear, deep space that you feel you could walk into and around with the silly characters. A fun and friendly drawing style with skilful perspective underneath. Lots of things to find in the pictures. Very satisfying to look at. And I learned a thing or two about walls and bricks as well.

[Amy Watson]

Weird book about walls. Could be interesting to use for science- linking to materials

[Sarah]

Scrapes a 4. Love the walls but I thought the layout was confusing sometimes and the illustrations of people a bit weird

[Library Quine]

This is a non-fiction book all about walls (although it's classified as JS, junior beginner reader, in our system). It contains a rhyming text which describes all different types and uses of walls. It also has a cast of cartoon characters who appear on each page, and whose speech balloons give further information and observations.