Το μεγάλο ταξίδι στο ποτάμι

by Magnus Weightman, Μαρία Παναγοπούλου (Translator)

Η Μπάνι έχει χάσει το παιχνίδι της!

Το παπάκι με την κόκκινη κορδέλα παρασύρεται από τα νερά του ποταμού και ξεκινά το μεγάλο ταξίδι του. Τα τρία κουνελάκια παίρνουν τη βαρκούλα τους και αναζητούν το χαμένο παπάκι.

Σε αυτό το υπέροχο ταξίδι στο ποτάμι θα περάσουν μέσα από καταρράκτες, δάση, πολύβουα λιμάνια και θα καταλήξουν στην ανοιχτή θάλασσα.

Ένα υπέροχο βιβλίο για το ταξίδι του νερού στη φύση και τον ρόλο που παίζει στη ζωή μας!

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals, Adventure, Travel

32 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2019

Reviews

[Virginie Roy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved the gorgeous illustrations of this book, telling the story of a bunny trying to rescue his favorite toy. The trees, the mountains, the river, the lakes, the animals... There are so many details, children are gonna look at these pages for hours (I know I would!).
The concept of seek-and-find is a nice extra. All in all, a nice adventure through beautiful landscapes!

4.5

Thanks to Clavis Publishing and Netgalley for the free advance copy in exchange of an honest review.

Publication date: May 2020.

[Blaine DeSantis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you Clavis Publishing and NetGalley for this free copy in return for my honest review. Well, this is a super book for me. Such a simple story and yet so beautifully told and illustrated. Bunny Rabbit loses her toy Little Duck and the entire Rabbit family float down the river to try and find Little Duck. See all sorts of locales, twists and turns of the river, they go past cities, windmills, tulips, factories, and more as they search for Little Duck. Before the story even begins we meet a host of characters we will see along the way and have a bit of a backstory as to what they are doing. Just really well done and is a book I heartily recommend to one and all.

[Etienne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gorgeous illustrations, very colorful and full of small details, you can spend some time just looking at those and all that is happening in every page. The story is also good, a bit light, but fun and entertaining. A good book. Totally worth the time!

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A charming and less hectic Where's Waldo. I didn't love it as much as If You Go Down to the Woods Today, but it has a similar vibe though the illustrations here are a bit more cartoony and the story has more peril as the bunny family tries to rescue a wayward toy duck from the river (e.g, when they reach the factory, the bunnies wonder, "Has Little Duck been swallowed up by one of these steel monsters?") I really enjoyed the European setting (this was originally published in Belgium and The Netherlands) ending made me smile and my littlest enjoyed finding the duck on every page.

[Sandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

The journey starts high up in the mountain, where the river is born from the glacier in it. A little bunny lost his toy duck in the river, and with the help of his brothers he sails to find it. All along the river. Each page is a section of the river they sail chasing the duck. Each page is a world to discover, full of details, characters, and stories. The landscape changes and the activities the characters are engaged in change with it. Of course one of the best parts it's finding duck in every page, which sometimes is trickier than others. The illustrations are delightful, and a joy to spend time examining.

I received this book from Clavis Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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[Sharah McConville · Rating 5 out of 5]

All Along The River is a Children's book about Bunny Rabbit losing her toy Little Duck. The search for Little Duck takes them along the river past many sights such as a farm, windmills, tulips, a factory and eventually to the sea. The illustrations in this book are gorgeous and Little Duck is hiding on each page. With thanks to NetGalley and Clavis Publishers for my digital copy.

[Natalie all_books_great_and_small · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a beautifully illustrated book about Bunny Rabbit who looses her toy duck overboard a boat and races to try to find it to no avail. Everyone she meets says they haven't seen it. Read to find out if she finds it in the end.
This book has so much to see on each page that children will spend a long time observing what is happening as they read and will probably spy something new each time.
I noticed the little toy duck can be seen on each page too if you look hard enough, along with afew other animals to spot - a little like where's wally.

[Cheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. Even though I don't have time, or eye strength, to give this the close attention it deserves, I can tell that it's amazing. My boys and I would have gone nuts for it when they were little. As an adult, I *especially* appreciate the endpapers - the first is a guide to inspire the reader's explorations, the closing is an image of the rabbit family with the terrific large-scale map they made of their journey.

[Hannah Layman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely illustrations that kept my 3 year old captivated for hours. She/we opened this one again and again.
A simple, adventurous story with a happy ending.

[Gretel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received a review copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

What a beautiful experience! The illustrations are gorgeous with fun little stories and jokes. Bunny loses her rubber ducky and goes on an adventure with her two brothers to retreive Ducky. They climb on their small boat and follow Ducky down the river. Along the way we meet recurring characters, each with their own adventures and stories.
Each illustrations covers a complete double-page with a short text in a corner. The images speak for themselves, however, telling different stories. I also love how small characters, like the snail or the chicken, reappear in every image and you look out for them to see what they're doing or where they are.
It's a beautifully illustrated Where's Waldo for children filled with cute animals. With little words the authors is able to tell a heartwarming, funny, and entertaining story. The environment is used to tell jokes, such as the sheep catching weird things with their fishing rod. The illustrations are gorgeous, full of vibrant colors that have a pleasant softness to it.

I think children and adults alike can enjoy this short and beautiful book.

[Edward Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

In detailed, double-page, intricately detailed, busy scenes, this large-format picture book offers a dozens of storylines, all running concurrently and most unfolding wordlessly. The first spread introduces characters such as Bunny Rabbit and her two brothers floating downstream in their red boat and searching for Bunny's favorite toy, Little Duck; pigs on motorcycles racing toward some mysterious destination); and Chuck the roller-skating chicken repeatedly finding lost items and returning them to their owners. Readers will search each scene for their favorite characters. The last spread shows all the characters in one room, admiring a scale model of the various settings they explored. A delightful seek-and-find picture book, originally the Netherlands, that kids will enjoy revisiting many times.

[Mandi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic seek & find book following characters down the river 😊 Loved the illustrations 💜

[Lagobond · Rating 5 out of 5]

An adorable book for the whole family to explore together. Bunny has lost Little (rubber) Duck in the river, and off we go to retrieve it. Every double-page spread shows a different type of landscape, following the river from its glacier spring up in the high mountains to the wide open ocean. Diorama included at the end.

There are lots of loveable, quirky creatures for us to make friends with: from Chuck the helpful rollerblading chicken to Laura the fishing sheep. The book contains very little text, but the story tells itself if you'll just take the time to look.

The drawings are gorgeous, with plenty of entertaining details to discover, share, and talk about. Great for children's language development, and relaxing for stressed adults to get lost in. Truly a memorable experience. I would give this book 100 stars if I could.

[Neha Thakkar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reminiscent of Richard Scarry's illustrations and anthropomorphized animals, crossed with a Where's Waldo/I Spy feel, this story is a cute animal story of lost and found. With tons of details to seek and follow, along with cute little pictorial jokes (my fave is when Little Duck is in the row of swans across one spread). The open ending gives readers a place to use their imagination to think of their own adventures that little duck and Bunny might go on next!

[Tasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

The journey following the river and waterway begins with Bunny losing her rubber ducky into the flow of the stream from the glacier near their home. She and her brothers hop into their boat to catch up to the toy. Soon they are floating past a pine forest, filled with other animals on picnics, racing motorcycles, kayaking, cycling, hiking, and much more. The river moves past farmland full of cows and horses, then spills into a huge lake where it is still hard to glimpse the toy floating. Look closely! After a glorious waterfall, the scene moves to a medieval town and European castles. Then a factory appears, pumping steam and water. Rain starts and the river slows to explore small islands. Windmills and tulips appear until a harbor is reached with a broad sea. Finally the toy is caught again. But what other stories did you see along the way?

This thoroughly Dutch picture book is a very entertaining seek-and-find book that is complicated and funny. Readers will need to lean in closely and read the book multiple times to follow all of the clever story arcs contained in the book. Nicely, Weightman outlines some of the ones to watch for in introductory pages.

The book does have words, but they are nearly unnecessary as the real star of the book are the incredibly detailed landscapes filled with foxes, rabbits, bears, pigs, and lots of other animals. Throughout the action, there are lovely moments of blissful floating, meeting new people, and a strong sense of a large community together.

An exceptional seek-and-find book with a European flair. Appropriate for ages 4-6.

[Μαριάννα Κουμαριανού · Rating 5 out of 5]

Τι ωραίο βιβλίο! Μια άλλη πλευρά των βιβλίων γνώσεων.

[Millie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delightful! I loved following the different characters, like the trail runner wolf and motorcycle pigs, throughout the book. Cute concept, beautifully illustrated.

[Μιχάλης Δαγκλής · Rating 5 out of 5]

Φανταστική εικονογράφηση. Χάνεται το μάτι στις σελίδες. Ότι πρέπει για μικρά παιδιά.

[Danette · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much fun! The girls loved all the things to see on each page. A fun way to learn how the rivers lead to the sea.

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[Pam · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an electronic ARC from Clavis Publishing through NetGalley.
A search and find book for elementary readers. Bunny has lost his rubber duck so his brothers and he set off to follow the river and find it.
Don't miss the questions before the title page. Each set of characters is seeking something too. Readers can answer the questions by studying the pages along the river journey.
Detailed illustrations provide hours of fun as young, and not so young, readers study the scenes.
Great book for a trip or other quiet time. Also can be fun to work together to locate all of the details and find the duck on each page spread.

[JCS · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short but sweet! A delightful children’s book with a simple, fun story. Little duck has gone missing and Bunny and her brothers, Peter and Bob jump in their boat and go on a little adventure while on their search. I adored the beautiful illustrations and I can imagine a child poring over them with curiosity, searching for Little Duck. Thank you to Magnus Weightman, Net Galley and Clavis Publishing for and ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do your kids love seek-and-find books? Especially seek-and-find books that first and foremost tell a story, but have an added element of seeking and finding along the way? The kinds of books that are enjoyable to adults to read out loud over and over (and over) again, but that also beg to be read over and over (and over) again as children discover something new every time? If your children are like mine, and your answers to those questions were "Yes!" then you definitely need to check out All Along the River by Magnus Weightman.
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Weightman's story opens with Bunny playing with her rubber duck by a river, while her family looks on from the house, when all of the sudden Little Duck floats away! Never fear, Bunny's big brothers come running to help, hopping straight into their boat in order to get Little Duck "before she's gone forever!" The three bunnies journey around bends, into forests, through farmlands, amidst the hubbub of big cities, and more... And if you stick with them until the end, you're in for quite a surprise!
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Okay, story aside, let's talk about the delightful sibling relationship here! Always on the lookout for books that model positive sibling relationships, I love the fact that Bunny's big brothers jump to action without hesitation to help her rescue her rubber ducky as it floats down the river. They stick with her throughout the entire journey, understanding how important Little Duck is to her and doing whatever it takes to help rescue her. They're wonderful models of helpful, understanding, and patient big siblings.
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Finally, these illustrations deserve attention of their own. Full of color, excitement, and hilarious details, these just beg to be pored over through many, many rereads. My girls love following the secondary characters' adventures on each page (especially the fishing lamb). Be sure to spend time with the endpapers... They add to the storyline while also presenting you with the aforementioned element of surprise!
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A big thank you to Clavis Publishing for sharing this book with our family in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

[Theediscerning · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well this was a fun book to explore – just don't pick it up as a quick last read before bedtime. Each large spread has a section of story to it, for we are following some nautical rabbits from where they live, just beside some glacial meltwater (?!), and one of them has let their rubber duck float away. So we follow the duck, the rabbits and the water – and a host of other animals and situations – downstream all the way to the seashore. The minutiae really are packed in – this is not a book where you have to find a set list of things, for there is no check-list beyond the initial introduction to most of the characters. No, they're just there for you to see if you have an eye for them – the crocodiles floating on an inflatable pig, the pig floating on an inflatable crocodile, for just one. There are several allusions to fairy tale as well, with a frog prince and a Rapunzel-type situation, and despite us starting way up in the mountains the whole thing develops a distinctive Dutch flavour, to prove its country of origin. And heck, you even get a small geographical lesson and a look at the water cycle to close. A book that really does manage what it set out to achieve – and a strong four stars.

[Jamie Bee · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Wild Duck Chase on the Varied River

This picture book follows the varied path of a river where a girl bunny and her two brothers are in pursuit of their pet named Little Duck who has gotten away from them. The river winds its way through some pretty amazing countryside—from glaciers at the beginning, through forests, by pasturelands, into a lake, and around a village, a factory, and a tulip farm! The siblings even ride down a waterfall. The pages are big and colorful, which is eye-catching. The perspective is like we are hovering above, like a drone almost, and looking down at the scene below. From this perspective, we can see quite far and get a sense of the area around the river. The only thing that I wasn't wild about was the very small font. I'm sure the author and/or illustrator wanted to give as much space as possible to the illustrations. So they definitely short-changed the font and text areas. Other than that, the book is beautiful. There's not really much to the story, of course; it's really all about the lovely illustrations.

I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.

[Kat Caric · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Stars for All Along the River, a fun search-and-find book for young children.

All Along the River is a delightful mashup of a somewhat Beatrix Potter illustrative style meets a lightweight Where's Waldo, with a storyline something like "Are You My Mother"?

Follow a bunny looking for a toy duck, through fantastical landscapes where all sorts of imagery can be searched and discussed. The illustration is rich and full, yet not so busy that it doesn't have balance and eye flow, nicely done. The text is enough to get a young child looking and looking, and it seems likely that young eyes could stay glued to a single page for quite a while, especially if an adult gave two or three things to find in addition to the main hunt item.

This is the best of making old ideas new again, while joining concepts that perhaps haven't been joined until here.

And that author name, a nom de plume? How fantastic is a name like Magnus Weightman! Haha!

Highly recommended for young ones! This one will be picked up again and again.

[Di Jiao · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is my Favorite so far: Beautifully illustrated classic, rekindling a sense of joy in nature's boundless imagination.

Written by Magnus Weightman with illustrations by Jon Holloway, the story follows a family of bunnies searching for their lost toy duck. Their quest leads them on a voyage of discovery, encountering playful otters, frogs, swans and seabirds. Though Little Duck remains missing, the bunnies befriend animals and experience the magic in a river's diverse landscape.

[Joy (Books with Joy) · Rating 4 out of 5]

In ‘All along the River’ we follow Bunny as she sets forth on an adventure to search for Little Duck. Throughout the book, the readers are encouraged to find Little Duck. Each spread is beautifully illustrated and I’m sure children will enjoy searching for Little Duck. However, upon reading this, you’ll discover there is much more to it that you’d expect.

‘All Along the River’ is a wonderful book with such a fun concept. The illustration is cute, bright, and engaging. I love how interactive this book is. Not only does this book contain the theme of persistence, this is a book that can be repeatedly picked up but upon each reread, there is something new to discover. For that, this is great for a range of ages.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

[April Gray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just delightful! Bunny Rabbit has lost her favorite toy, Little Duck, and enlists the help of her brothers, Peter and Bob, to help her find it. They sail from their home by a glacial lake through many different landscapes, all the way to the sea in their search, and see many sights on the way. The reader, while following along the Rabbits' journey, are tasked with keeping an eye out not only for Little Duck, but also twelve other characters/sets of characters to see what they are up to, and to answer the questions at the beginning of the book. As with most search-and-find books, the text is light and the focus is on the illustrations, which are wonderful- so much detail to pore over, so many tiny stories going on! I saw a familiar yellow submarine in one spread....
Recommended for pretty much everyone- I'm 52 and had a great time with this book!

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[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review copy provided by NetGalley

What a clever and intricate story this is! It's one of those books that you can read through once for the main text, and then go back through on multiple runs to catch all the subplots being generated through the illustrations. It follows a river from its source through its many different zones of use until it reaches the ocean, all on the pretense that the main characters are chasing a rubber duck that got away from them at the river's headwaters. Then, to add to the mix, there's a page after the main text where you see that the entire river might just have been a science museum exhibit that the main characters were playing on the entire time. Very impressive book!

[Alex Matzkeit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Einem Flusslauf zu folgen als Wimmelbuch finde ich eine tolle Idee, vor allem, da man am Schluss noch einmal einen Gesamtüberblick über den Fluss bekommt. Dass das Buch in niederländischen Landschaften endet drückt bei mir zusätzlich voll auf die Nostalgietaste. Die einzelnen Plotlinien der verschiedenen Charaktere sind lustig und gut nachvollziehbar, die Illustrationen klar aber luftig. Punktabzug gibt es bei mir nur für den dämlichen Namen der Hauptfigur (Bunny) und für die merkwürdige Anthropomorphisierungs-Mischung - Pferde und Schweine zum Beispiel treten sowohl als vierbeinige Nutztiere als auch als auf zwei Beinen laufende Mensch-Stellvertreter auf. Sehr weird.