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Hook (2009)

by Ed Young(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1596433639 (ISBN13: 9781596433632)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Roaring Brook Press

review 1: Nearly a wordless picture book, the story of a found egg, the caring of a mother hen who adopts the eaglet that emerges and a young boy is so lovely I turned the pages slowly, then started over more than once. The story entertains by giving voice to the mother, who says to her new one, “You are not meant for earth,” and showing the boy helping the eaglet try to fly again and again. I’ll leave the ending for you to see and celebrate when you read the book. The charcoal drawings are simply and beautifully done. It’s almost like a “sketchbook” of a story.
review 2: Very simple text pairs with pastel illustrations to tell the story of an abandoned egg that is cared for by a hen and grows up to be a bold eagle, resident of the sky. I really liked how the... more text left spaces for the reader to fill with careful study of the illustrations, though it makes for a difficult title to read aloud. I like the exercise it encourages readers to get into in which they glean as much information from the illustrations as from the text that make up the story. PreK-2. less

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