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Little Black Crow (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover)) (2011)

by Chris Raschka(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

review 1: A boy sees a little black crow. He questions what the crow might wonder about.What I thought: The premise of Little Black Crow is certainly a novel one. The questioning format will appeal to my story time crowd. I can just imagine the answers they'd give. I love the illustrations. I never knew how much I liked watercolor until I looked at this book. My favorite illustrations are the crow family and the boy with the crow.Story Time Themes: Birds, Fall, Imagination
review 2: A gentle, reflective book for kids that would work for older children at storytime but would be even better one on one. The pastel illustrations would be difficult to see if you had a large storytime group. This book would be great to create dialogue between a parent and child.Summary from ... morePublishers Weekly: Surrounded by blurry blue watercolor skies and wheat-brown daubs suggestive of autumn fields, a boy sits on a rail fence and talks to a small crow. At first, his rhyming questions seem simple: "Little black crow, where do you go?/ Where do you go in the cold white snow?" As the queries continue, readers may begin to consider the mysterious outdoor lives of animals and the things humans take for granted. The boy asks, "Is it enough to have feathers in all kinds of weathers?" as blue and brown slashes of rain whip around the crow. The crow, inked with an enormous beak and a comparatively tiny body, seems to grin but offers no reply. The boy also wonders about the crow's family ("Are you a boy like me?") and asks whether the crow might love "the little gray dove" perched next to him on a power line. Caldecott Medalist Raschka (The Hello Goodbye Window) leaves the questions unanswered and pictures the curious crow landing next to the boy at the close of this thought-provoking, nature-centered reflection. less

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