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I Know Here (2010)

by Laurel Croza(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0888999232 (ISBN13: 9780888999238)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Groundwood Books

review 1: I know here by Laurel Croza is a story of a young child who has been told she will be moving from Saskatchewan to Toronto. Though out the book the young girl faces anxieties from a unfamiliar place. She wonders how people will treat her. She leaves behind all her familiar things such as the moose, howling wolfs, the hills and the road to home. She comes across a teacher who encourages the girl to draw the beautiful things she misses to help her feel more at home. The vivid beautiful illustrations are astonishing in this book. The details of each picture really captured my attention; it really made the book shine through.
review 2: The illustrations in this picturebook are deliciously dynamic and delightfully bright. The pastels and layering is seriously ... morea visual feast.Unfortunately, the text lacks what dynamism the illustrations offer. The lack of plot and and overwritten theme (of moving to a new place) fell completely flat for me with the protagonist's decision to draw a picture as the resolution.It is very unfortunate as it is a Boston Horn Book winner, and really quite beautiful. less

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