Monday, January 12, 2009

Read Anything Good Lately? - Susan Allen & Jane Lindaman

Illustrator: Vicky Enright
Published: 2003
Rating: 3.5
Endpapers: Christmas Green

Simple sentence fragments in comic sans font with cute, detailed illustrations show many of the places and types of literature (well, at least 26) that you can read. For example:

Information on the internet
Joke books in the jacuzzi
The back of the Kellogg's box in kitchen,
Literature at the library

There's a thought bubble/oval for each page that show bits of the text that people in that illustrations are reading.

Q=quotations in the quiet (girl reading a book hight in the green branches of a tree with the quote she's reading in the thought bubble: "The pen is mightier than the sword.")

X=xrays in the eXamination room (doctor and girls and dog with bandage on his tail are looking at the tail xray)

Z=Zodiac at the zoo (animls are bending over people sitting on a bench as they all peruse a newspaper. (Thought bubble: PISCES, Feb 19-Mar 20 YOU WILL ALWAYS LOVE READING)

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