We got whomped by winter weather this week, and had a small crowd, but the books were right on target!
These books were selected by my coworker.
Snowballs
Lois Ehlert
ISBN: 0152000747
Ehlert's signature blend of collage and found items in a wintry installment focused on snowmen and the fun of building them, and the curious supplies and random objects that can make up their expressions and ornaments. Busy and folksy.
Penguin and Pinecone, a friendship story
Salina Yoon
ISBN: 9780802728432
Ok, the anthropomorphized pinecone (who never talks or moves) and the resulting "friends" the pine trees... a little odd. But it's still a cute story of helping things (or people) get to where they belong, and of cultivating friendships even over time and space, and in thinking of others in a loving way. Even if the other is a pinecone. Sweet but strange.
Blizzard
John Rocco
ISBN: 9781423178651
Rocco's hometown was swamped by a blizzard when he was a child, so he created this picture book as a memoir and a record of that event. The illustrations are only a BIT dated, but the story of adventure and boredom (and parental worry) is pretty timeless, even if the setting and protagonist are solidly stereotypical mid-century americana. Dramatic and funny.
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Monday, December 22, 2014
New Picture Book: Blizzard, John Rocco
Blizzard
John Rocco
ISBN: 9781423178651
Norman-Rockwell Americana in a pint-sized snowy adventure.
This was adorable. We're taken back to the past, when a freak blizzard blew through our narrator's town, burying it in over 4 feet of snow in one afternoon. At first, this was a great treat (school let out early, snowmen and snowforts galore) but after a couple of days of being snowed-in, spirits start to settle, and the food starts getting tight.
In a heroic (and adorable) bid to save the family from gustatory boredom, our narrator sets out across the blizzarded neighborhood to fetch groceries for his family and for the neighbors. A full-spread page of his perambulations through the neighborhood make it clear that this was not some dire mission, but an adventurous trek - there might be a few detours and digressions along the way. Still, every journey must end, and the alert reader will be happy to note the grocers kindly phoning back home to report on the adventurer's progress. Back home again, tired and thrilled with victory, and a reward of cocoa WITH MILK as the capper for the event.
The illustrations are really what makes this book. It's like Rockwell illustrated a picture book. Slightly tongue-in-cheek, laser focus on the simple joys of life and of a mythological "simpler time" in the past, a keen childs'-eye-viewpoint, and bright colors and traditional lines that manage to not be garish or overdone.
Really beautiful, and perfect for a storytime for our blizzard-less southern kids.
John Rocco
ISBN: 9781423178651
Norman-Rockwell Americana in a pint-sized snowy adventure.
This was adorable. We're taken back to the past, when a freak blizzard blew through our narrator's town, burying it in over 4 feet of snow in one afternoon. At first, this was a great treat (school let out early, snowmen and snowforts galore) but after a couple of days of being snowed-in, spirits start to settle, and the food starts getting tight.
In a heroic (and adorable) bid to save the family from gustatory boredom, our narrator sets out across the blizzarded neighborhood to fetch groceries for his family and for the neighbors. A full-spread page of his perambulations through the neighborhood make it clear that this was not some dire mission, but an adventurous trek - there might be a few detours and digressions along the way. Still, every journey must end, and the alert reader will be happy to note the grocers kindly phoning back home to report on the adventurer's progress. Back home again, tired and thrilled with victory, and a reward of cocoa WITH MILK as the capper for the event.
The illustrations are really what makes this book. It's like Rockwell illustrated a picture book. Slightly tongue-in-cheek, laser focus on the simple joys of life and of a mythological "simpler time" in the past, a keen childs'-eye-viewpoint, and bright colors and traditional lines that manage to not be garish or overdone.
Really beautiful, and perfect for a storytime for our blizzard-less southern kids.
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