Title: Free FallAuthor: David Wiesner
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard Books
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0-688-05583-4
Rating: 5 out of 5 dreams
Summary: A young boy falls asleep in his bed while reading a book about traveling around the world. During his dreams, he is floating through time, from place to place, relating to what was in the book he was reading. This book shows children that you can go anywhere in life if you dream big and believe in yourself.
Title: Sidewalk Circus
Author: Kevin Hawkes
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-7636-1107-7
Rating: 3 out of 5 clowns
Summary: A new circus is coming to town and the streets are starting to become decorated with flyers, pictures, ticket sales, and so much more! Everyone in town is so excited to see the circus on opening day because of how amazing the publicity has been. If you want to know what to expect at the circus, you will have to wait until opening day to see all of the surprises!
Author: Barbra Lehman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0618-75639-1
Rating: 5 out of 5 rain drops
Summary: On a rainy day, a little boy wants to go out and play with friends. He comes across a chest that he climbs into which leads him to another land. Where this new land takes him is wonderful and makes him so happy, but you will have to read it to see it! Jump in the chest with the boy to find out!
You found one by David Weisner that I have not seen before. I will definitely have to check out Free Fall. I love Barbara Lehman's Red Book, so I will also have to add Rainstorm to my list. It looks like the same character from the Red Book looking out the window on the cover. I wonder if it is supposed to connect or if that is just how she illustrates all her human characters. Any clue in the book that it is part of a larger story?
ReplyDeleteAll these wordless picture books sound amazing! There is so much you can do with them in the classroom to promote literacy and not just in the early grades. Maybe I'll have to check some of these to use with my middle school students next summer for a writing activity! I think they would love Free Fall.
ReplyDeleteRainstorm sounds extremely interesting to me and really made me want to read it. I feel like that with the wordless picture books there are a few common themes and new worlds or lands seems to be a very popular one. Those are very interesting to me because of how much it relies on imagination and I think that would be very beneficial to children so they can create their own story with this new, made up world.
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