Sunday, January 5, 2020

Picture Book - How To Read a Book by Kwame Alexander

Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
2019, Harper
HC$17.99
36 pgs. - one opens out to a double spread, and one is smaller, inserted into the middle
Goodreads rating:  3.79 - 1824 ratings
My rating:  3
Endpapers:startling bright neon pink

1st line/s:  see below

My comments: This book is a poem, using a clementine orange as a metaphor.  It's really quite lovely.  And I love, love, love Melissa Sweet.  However, the poem got totally lost in these illustrations.  I could barely read the words myself, let along having a child try to read it.  It's too busy, and almost too bright, though I do love the vibrancy AND the collages, but not with this text in this book, too much is too much.

Goodreads:  Find a tree—a
black tupelo or
dawn redwood will do—and
plant yourself.
(It’s okay if you prefer a stoop, like Langston Hughes.)


With these words, an adventure begins. Kwame Alexander’s poetry and Melissa Sweet’s artwork come together to take readers on a journey between the pages of a book.

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