2016, Candlewick
HC $16.99
32 pgs.
Goodreads rating: 3.73
My rating: 4
Endpapers: Simple. Pale green with individual leaves flicked in. A great outdoors-in-the-yard kind of feel
Title Page: Older sister curled up in comfy chair reading. Younger sister creating a block masterpiece on the floor.
Illustrations: charcoal, pencil, and ink. Colored digitally.
1st line/s: "It's a beautiful day! Go play outside!"
My comments: Ha! The first pages definitely remind me of me and my own sister..... And, it's dedicated to "my favorite sister." This book is cute, clever, and imaginative - a little Where the Wild Things Are meets Bink and Mollie. And, unlike what really happened with my own sister, it has a wonderful, perfect ending. Great picture book.
Goodreads: Even a bookish big sister is drawn in by the promise of her imaginative sibling’s spectacular hideaway.
I have a secret tree fort, and YOU’RE NOT INVITED!
When two sisters are ushered outside to play, one sits under a tree with a book while the other regales her with descriptions of a cool fort in a tree that grows ever more fantastical in the telling. What will it take to get the older sister to look up? The promise of a water-balloon launcher in case of attack? A trapdoor to stargaze through? A crow’s nest from which to see how many whales pass by or to watch for pirates? Or the best part of all, which can’t be revealed, because it’s a secret?
I have a secret tree fort, and YOU’RE NOT INVITED!
When two sisters are ushered outside to play, one sits under a tree with a book while the other regales her with descriptions of a cool fort in a tree that grows ever more fantastical in the telling. What will it take to get the older sister to look up? The promise of a water-balloon launcher in case of attack? A trapdoor to stargaze through? A crow’s nest from which to see how many whales pass by or to watch for pirates? Or the best part of all, which can’t be revealed, because it’s a secret?
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