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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lush and vibrant
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!
Published on April 4, 2003 by D. Barth
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Silence Is Golden
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...
Published on May 14, 2001 by jerbs
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Silence Is Golden,
By "jerbs" (Telford, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why Butterflies Go By On Silent Wings (Hardcover)
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."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lush and vibrant,
By D. Barth (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why Butterflies Go By On Silent Wings (Hardcover)
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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Why Butterflies Go By On Silent Wings by Marguerite W. Davol (Hardcover - May 1, 2001)
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