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Feb 11, 2011 Ronyell rated it liked it

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I have recently been reading many books by Uri Shulevitz and I have just stumbled upon this book called “The Treasure.” “The Treasure” is a Caldecott Honor Book by Uri Shulevitz and it is about a man named Isaac who tries to find a buried treasure after his dreams tell him about the treasure. “The Treasure” may have beautiful illustrations, but many children might be bored with the simple storyline.

There once lived a man named Isaac who was very poor, however one night Isaac had a dream where a I have recently been reading many books by Uri Shulevitz and I have just stumbled upon this book called “The Treasure.” “The Treasure” is a Caldecott Honor Book by Uri Shulevitz and it is about a man named Isaac who tries to find a buried treasure after his dreams tell him about the treasure. “The Treasure” may have beautiful illustrations, but many children might be bored with the simple storyline.

There once lived a man named Isaac who was very poor, however one night Isaac had a dream where a mysterious voice told him to go the bridge by the Royal Palace to find a treasure there. At first, Isaac did not believe in the dream, but when the dream came back to him for the third time, Isaac decided to go look for the treasure.

Probably the only thing I liked about this book is Uri Shulevitz’s illustrations as they are extremely beautiful and colorful and it richly deserved the Caldecott Honor. The images that I really loved in this book are the images of Isaac himself as he stands out from all the other characters in the book as he wears a large blue overcoat and a brown furry hat that makes him look somewhat simple yet friendly at the same time. I also loved the way that Uri Shulevitz illustrated the images of the forest in this book as they are simply breathtaking to look at and I loved the lush greenness of the trees in the forest.

The reason why I gave this book a three star rating is because the story did not seem that interesting to read about, because it is simply about a man trying to find a treasure with no obstacles in his way. Maybe it is just me, but I think that this book would have been more interesting to me if Isaac had some kind of obstacle in his way of his journey to the treasure rather than just going straight to the palace and then just merrily go back home like nothing else happened.

All in all, “The Treasure” does have gorgeous illustrations that extremely mesmerizing beyond all reason, but children who expect a story that has action and adventure in it will not get that satisfaction in this book and it might be too boring for smaller children to handle.

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Shelves: childrens, picture-book, caldecott-honor, 2018

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