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PreSchool-Grade 2-In a preface, Rankin invites readers to tour the Maine coast, her home. From sea roses to sandpipers and lobsters, she provides 20 countable plants and animals that almost come to life. A large, legible white numeral is placed at the bottom of each picture; the only text is a word on the border identifying the featured fauna or flora, leaving the acrylic ink-and-paint illustrations to thrive without competition. The subjects of the paintings have a beloved aspect yet lack sentimentality, and perspective and sensibility are reminiscent of the author/illustrator's The Handmade Alphabet (Dial, 1991). Each picture includes a detail that hints at what is to come on the following page, an increasingly common convention in picture books that feels fresh here. A closing spread of a harbor landscape encompasses all of the previously featured living things, and is followed by two pages of "Intriguing Nature Facts" about them. (Who knew eastern cottontail rabbits can leap 10 to 15 feet?) An effective concept book, Swan Harbor is even better as a clean, strong portrait of the coastal Maine environment.
Liza Graybill, Worcester Public Library, MA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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PreS-Gr. 2. In loving tribute to her home in Maine, Rankin has packed a lot of information into a simple, edifying, and attractive package. The text is very direct. Each page has a number from one to twenty, and the name of the bird, beast, or blossom counted: "1 robin," "3 squirrels," "10 sea roses." Each full-page naturalistic illustration (in acrylic inks and paints) also has an example of the next subject, so a glimpse of the "5 irises" is found on the "4 rabbits" page, and the wings of a dragonfly hover at the edge of the irises just before the "6 dragonflies" appear on the following page. Rankin also carries her images through the season, with the robin in the spring, seashells in high summer, the monarch butterflies in autumn, and the 20 swans in a snowy winter. A panorama of the whole harbor, showing the location of all the figures and the sweep of the seasons, is included, along with a paragraph that describes each animal, insect, or plant. An elegant conceit. GraceAnne DeCandido
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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PreSchool-Grade 2-In a preface, Rankin invites readers to tour the Maine coast, her home. From sea roses to sandpipers and lobsters, she provides 20 countable plants and animals that almost come to life. A large, legible white numeral is placed at the bottom of each picture; the only text is a word on the border identifying the featured fauna or flora, leaving the acrylic ink-and-paint illustrations to thrive without competition. The subjects of the paintings have a beloved aspect yet lack sentimentality, and perspective and sensibility are reminiscent of the author/illustrator's The Handmade Alphabet (Dial, 1991). Each picture includes a detail that hints at what is to come on the following page, an increasingly common convention in picture books that feels fresh here. A closing spread of a harbor landscape encompasses all of the previously featured living things, and is followed by two pages of "Intriguing Nature Facts" about them. (Who knew eastern cottontail rabbits can leap 10 to 15 feet?) An effective concept book, Swan Harbor is even better as a clean, strong portrait of the coastal Maine environment.
Liza Graybill, Worcester Public Library, MA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
PreS-Gr. 2. In loving tribute to her home in Maine, Rankin has packed a lot of information into a simple, edifying, and attractive package. The text is very direct. Each page has a number from one to twenty, and the name of the bird, beast, or blossom counted: "1 robin," "3 squirrels," "10 sea roses." Each full-page naturalistic illustration (in acrylic inks and paints) also has an example of the next subject, so a glimpse of the "5 irises" is found on the "4 rabbits" page, and the wings of a dragonfly hover at the edge of the irises just before the "6 dragonflies" appear on the following page. Rankin also carries her images through the season, with the robin in the spring, seashells in high summer, the monarch butterflies in autumn, and the 20 swans in a snowy winter. A panorama of the whole harbor, showing the location of all the figures and the sweep of the seasons, is included, along with a paragraph that describes each animal, insect, or plant. An elegant conceit. GraceAnne DeCandido
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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