Quick Booktalk
Two children exploring nature ask readers if we'd like to join them.
About the Illustrations
I requested this book based on the author, whose previous work I have loved. The text is fine, but the illustrations are hugely disappointing. The figures look oddly bloated and stretched, as though their bodies have been altered in Photoshop. Though the colors and the concepts for some of the pages are interesting, the tone of the pictures didn't match the tone of the text, and it made the whole execution feel sloppy.
Story Time Possibilities
Because of the rhyming text, this book would be a pleasure to read aloud. I'm just not sure how well the pictures would be received, and I'd probably be more likely to choose a title with strong writing and illustrations.
Reader's Advisory
Liz Garton Scanlon is also the author of All the World illustrated by Marla Frazee, Think Big illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton and Another Way to Climb a Tree illustrated by Hadley Hooper, and co-author with Audrey Verdick of Bob, Not Bob illustrated by Matthew Cordell. I have enjoyed all of these, and this book being a bit of a let-down feels like a fluke. I still recommend this author's work.
Disclosure
I received a review copy of Would You Come Too? from Beach Lane Books in exchange for an honest review.
No comments :
Post a Comment