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Along A Long Road (2011)

by Frank Viva(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0316129259 (ISBN13: 9780316129251)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

review 1: Well...this is an interesting one. This is the esoteric story of a man riding a bicycle on a long road. Children fascinated by off-the-beaten path artwork will love the illustrations, especially the shiny yellow road that travels through all the pages.However there is not one piece of punctuation anywhere in this book. The entire story is just one long run-on sentence. Makes for rather difficult reading.
review 2: I enjoyed Frank Viva's jazzy artwork. The book follow's a cyclist's tour through town and country; the concept reminds me of Laura Ljunkvist's "Follow the Line" series, but with a palette of yellows and black. The cyclist's road goes from the front cover, along the endpapers, through the book, endpapers, back cover, and then returns to the front co... morever. I don't know the exact name for the printing process--embossing, I think--but the road is printed in such a way that it is slick and raised from the matte texture of the paper, so you can feel it if you trace it with your finger. This may well be the only children's picture book I've seen with a pregnant woman that wasn't a "new baby" book. less

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