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Tout Au Long De La Route (2011)

by Frank Viva(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Albin Michel Jeunesse

review 1: Another book for the Mock Caldecott discussion. This is one of those books that's kind of a neat revelation. The text is simple and drives you along... but not as much as the road itself. I enjoyed the abstracted art style especially with the use of only 5 colors the entire book (black, white, blue, red and yellow). The copyright page notes: "This book was created as a single, continuous thirty-five-foot-long piece of art using Adobe Illustrator." Following the line through (and around, and through again...) the book is fun and engaging not just because of how it moves through the pages. I feel that having the line printed in a raised, glossy yellow ink makes the book all the more effective. It stands out visually both for being the "brightest" color used in the book and b... moreecause of the slight shine it has. This invites the reader also to follow the line not only with their eyes, but with their fingers as well. Having the line continuous makes this the sort of thing one can read over and over and over...
review 2: When I heard about this book, I wanted to read it because Sophie's daddy and grandpa are avid bicyclists. There aren't a lot of words in the book, but the pictures are super and you can see that long yellow road stretching from page to page. Along the coastline, past a town, through a tunnel, over a bridge, uphill and down, our cyclist pedals, stops for a short break, and pedals again until we see the sun setting and the moon rising. I'm no art expert, so I don't have the exact words for the type of illustrations in the book, but they are unusual, eye-catching, and interesting. A good book for most kids, but especially for a child (or grandchild) of a bicyclist. less

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