5/18/2023 0 Comments The whisperer tgThe whisper goes on and tells the little girl that she can imagine the words and stories and that a story can always be changed there aren't any rules to being imaginative. She is sad at first, but then she hears a whisper that tells her to not be disappointed. ![]() When she opens the book, it is a wordless picture book. On her way home, to read the book, somehow, all the words spill from the pages. The idea of the story is that a little girl borrows a magical book. This book was both written and illustrated by Zagarenski. I have grown to love the artwork done by Pamela Zagarenski. This one he did not take from me, and had no qualms with me putting it in the backpack with the rest of the books to get turned in. Honestly when I read these books to my autistic son, if he likes the book, he puts it back on the shelf so I don't return it to the library just yet. However as an adult reading it to a child, I didn't enjoy it. Storybookception much? I think a young kid, with little to no attention span, would probably enjoy reading this to themselves. There was the main story, followed by a book inside the book without words, and to top it off, an incomplete story about the wordless book, made up by a girl using her imagination. It felt like this was trying to be three books at once. As far as the story goes, I think the premise was good, but it was executed badly. The art had a fantastical folklore feel that I'm sure a lot of people love, but it just didn't strike a chord with me. I didn't love the book, and I didn't love the art. but in any case, it's a gorgeous object, and i absolutely loved the revised aesop fable at the end.Īpparently I'm in the minority. I don't know how this book would play with kids or if this is just one of those picture books that's really more for us grown folks. i mean, what's that kid even complaining about?Īnd the message of "using your imagination to create your own stories" is obviously valuable (although i feel like kids pretty much already naturally gravitate towards that, don't they?) but apart from that, the story qua story is a little frustrating because although there are recurring animals, the story fragments are unrelated and kind of a tease for kids accustomed to a more linear narrative.īut ohhh that artwork. ![]() the illustrations are phenomenal there are so many details and layers and different styles of artwork on each page that you could spend a lot of time just appreciating them as art and you don't really need a story to frame them. There are never any rules, rights, or wrongs in imagining -Īnd it's like If on a Winter's Night a Traveler jr edition on each of the following pages we get fragments of stories that sometimes cut off midsentence, stories with titles such as The Magical Cloak or Tiger's Prayer that the little girl imagines as accompaniments to the lush full two-page spreads of artwork which are completely unconnected, although each illustration contains a fox and a rabbit.Īgain, i do tend to uprate picture books in a way that i don't with "regular books," and if we're being honest, as a story, this is kind of unsatisfying. Stories can always be changed and imagined differently. Remember: beginnings, middles, and ends of ![]() Start with a few simple words and imagine from there. "Dear little girl, don't be disappointed. It's just not a book of stories, without any words, she thought.īut then she hears a whisper on the wind: Where were the words? Where were the stories? Here, a little girl borrows a magical book of stories from her teacher, but on her way home all the words escape, leaving only the pictures behind. ![]() Along with This Is Sadie, this is another gorgeously-illustrated picture book about the power of storytelling and the imagination that has several pictures of foxen.
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