Monday, November 11, 2024

Where Do I Look: A Child's Search for the Grand Canyon (1983)

 I love the layout of Where Do I Look? by Jacque Franklin. This is a large, rectangular paperback with loads of white space on each page. On one page is a huge capital letter to begin a small amount of text. This letter is decorated with gold drawings of plants or features of wildlife. On the opposite page is a black and white photograph by George Huey of wildlife. The goal of this book is to highlight the grand canyon: "squirrels and the pinyon nuts, the deer and the prairie grass, the yucca with its roots in the soil..." 

This story is copyrighted by the Grand Canyoin Natural History Association

the day the goose got loose (1990)

the day the goose got loos e by Reeve Lindbergh (1990) is silly fun. Steven Kellogg ’s illustrations are perfect for this story of barnyard...