Look by Fiona Woodcock is not what I expected. When it said it was a story about a sister and brother off to the zoo, I expected a story where the items they see had that double ‘o’ to them would be accented. What there was instead of a story was just words. One word per page, in fact. There is no story. We have to lOOk at what they see. They go to the z00. They see the babOOns. And see the kangarOOs. They […]
Poppy, Buttercup, Bluebell, and Dandy
A group of young wildflowers on skateboards and scooters zoom around the pages of Poppy, Buttercup, Bluebell, and Dandy by Fiona Woodcock. They leave seeds all over to create color and life where there was only gray before. Poppy, Buttercup, Bluebell, and Dandy (the names of our heroines) is a straight forward story about conservation and making your world beautiful by going out and doing instead of just standing by. The watercolor-like illustrations keep with the lightheartedness of the text. This allows the deeper meaning […]