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Disappearing Desmond (2010)

by Anna Alter(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0375866841 (ISBN13: 9780375866845)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

review 1: This is a book about a child that likes to hide in the background. He was so good at it that most people never noticed him. Then one day a new girl comes to school and changes things around for him. She's able to draw him out and in turn, he does it to another child that is never noticed. My son loved this book. He thought it was funny how Desmond liked to hide, which was usually by camouflage of some sort.
review 2: Desmond and his entire family didn’t like to be the center of attention. He’d much rather disappear and be ignored. Sometimes even his teacher could not find him! But things changed when Gloria came to his school. Gloria liked to be the center of attention. After a bit, something strange happened and Gloria said hello to Desmond even thoug... moreh he was hiding. No one had ever seen him when he was hiding before. And it just kept happening, Gloria kept on talking to him until one day they read together for the entire morning. The two of them started playing together all the time, until Desmond came to school on a Monday morning ready to be noticed. Later, Desmond heard a sound in the bushes and found a kid hiding there. The three of them played all afternoon, but there were many more kids hiding around the playground.This is a very nice book about shyness and wanting to be ignored. Alter found a great solution to the shyness issue by having a once-shy child make overtures to another shy child. That is the magic in this picture book. Readers will also enjoy the ending where the large number of other shy children is revealed. Alter’s illustrations have a similar feel to Nancy Carlson’s Harriet series. They have simple lines, bright colors, and animal characters. A successful book about shyness without the focus on the painful nature of it, this book offers a hand of comfort and friendship to shy children hidden everywhere. Appropriate for ages 4-6. less

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