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El Libro Del Oso (2012)

by Kate Banks(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8426139507 (ISBN13: 9788426139504)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Juventud

review 1: The post-modern turn of the book about a book experience is not something new. Hallensleben's control of composition captured the expansive material feeling of a picture book. His renditions of page turns, crossing the gutter, and having your body immersed in the world of the book all felt fresh and were my favorite parts of the book. Banks' words added to this experience giving a little of the boy and his mom, and a little of the book with each set of words. But. Yet another book about bedtime? Do kids in the picturebook world ever read at any other time? I'd love to see a book about a mother who wakes her child up in the morning to a book--books for breakfast [Hi, Lu]!
review 2: I love that this book captures the cozy, safe feeling of being read to as a small... more child. You could use this book with adults to demonstrate the importance of reading to your children, and how to interact with the book and the child at the same time. Like when the mother says "Shh" because the bear is sleeping, or when they point out the different colors in the illustrations. I'm going to try this in my evening story time and see if the kids are as lulled by it as I was. Update: I tried it in story time and I think it had the desired effect. The kids liked saying "shh" with the little boy and the room did get very quiet. It might have been a little too long and a bit too abstract, though, to share with such a young group (3 to 5 year olds, mostly). I'm going to say it's better suited for 1:1 reading. less

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