Books by Marianne Dubuc
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review 1: 4.5 An elegant and beautiful story about friendship. I would extend the idea of friendship and ask my students would the lion still be okay if the bird never returned? In reality, all of us have friends who are no longer our friends for a wide range of reasons. We need to show ou...
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review 1: This picture book is a quiet, reflective, thoughtful look at friendship, relationships, and letting go. A lion finds an injured bird and nurses the bird back to health. The lion and the bird spend the winter together, with the lion thoughtfully taking care of the bird and the two...
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review 1: Although there were minimal words, I actually think it would have been more effective as a wordless picture book. The illustrations are beautiful, and I felt they told the story just as effectively without the simplistic wording of the text. It felt a bit like the theme was being...
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review 1: Unless your child has endless patience, this book is not for you. Dubuc's art is the focus here - actually the only focus - and the joke of animals dressing up wears thin.Had the paging been different, where the reader sees the animal in his/her costume, can guess what the costu...
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review 1: All of the animals are having a masquerade party - disguises are a must - and so, one by one, we meet each of the animals and what they are wearing. There are colored pencil drawings - and the ones depicting the animal in costume are hilarious. There is simple text mainly The ...
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review 1: At first, this book feels chunky for a children's book. It is thick, but each page features just a few words. On each page one object is shown. A new sentence begins to describe something around the object. The next page features the next object. The book features flowers, space ...
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review 1: It was hard to really appreciate this book when I had unknowingly read a similar book called ZOOM by Itsvan banyai. I love the concept of the book with the circular storyline and the twist ending. What i did not like was the fact that the progression was not logical. For example,...
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review 1: A fat, small, square picture book in which one things lead to another, starting and ending at "my house." "In front of my house . . . a rosebush./On the rosebush . . . a little bird." Facing each page their is a brightly colored illustration of the object on a plain white backgr...
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review 1: “In front of My House,” is illustrated by Richard Scarry. Amazingly the book didn’t list an author. Once I began to read the book I realized this a science book that is telling the readers about things in the different animals’ homes. Students can count the different items in ...