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Summary: Silence Is Golden
Review: The bright watercolor illustrations wash through this book as frantic as its loud animals, and only calm down when the animals themselves stop to enjoy the quiet; reflecting the writing style in a visual way. The transition from noisy ignorance to quiet reflection is starkly abrupt; brought on by a horrendous thunderstorm. Perhaps, this transition will be too abrupt for some readers, as it was for me. It also may seem strange to say about a picture book, but there is not enough character development of the two un-named children who appear only briefly to comment on, first, the noise, and then the quiet. This might be a good read-aloud and discussion lead-in to better written creationist stories, like Kipling's "Just-So Stories" or Hughes' "How the Whale Became."
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Summary: Lush and vibrant
Review: What luscious art! What a fresh way to consider one's place in the world, surrounded by such color. My kids used inside voices for at least 2 days after reading this book to them. This is no small feat.Everyone, look around you!
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Summary: Lush and vibrant
Review: What luscious art! What a fresh way to consider one's place in the world, surrounded by such color. My kids used inside voices for at least 2 days after reading this book to them. This is no small feat. Everyone, look around you!
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