Thursday, October 6, 2016

It's a book by Lane Smith


Book Review

Smith, L. (2011). It's a book. NY: Roaring Brook.



Summary
In this humorous book, a jackass tries to understand what the monkey is doing.  (He's reading a book).  Through questions and answers, the jackass discovers that even though it is low tech, a book is a wonderful thing.

Analysis




The illustrations in this simple story are just that, simple.  The author uses geometric shapes to portray this conversation / story.  The illustrations are essential to this story.  You can see the confusion of the jackass as he tries to comprehend why the monkey would spend his time on something that didn't blog, tweet, google, ect... The dialogue is also written in two different colors to help the reader know which character is talking.





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