"Next,
dig your thumb
at the bottom
of each juicy section
and
POP
the words out
piece
by
piece ... "
Oh, my! Kwame Alexander gives guidance for reading a book you love, while Melissa Sweet adds to the magic in the words with her incomparable collage and watercolor illustrations. It is the best kind of advice to give all readers. Savor the reading! The words and art work beautifully together to offer a perfect description for the joy to be found in reading as a worthwhile pursuit.
Mr. Alexander suggests finding a tree, a stoop, a comfy chair - a place that is just right for time spent with a book. Unfurling its pages as you would peel a clementine will allow joy to be found in the brilliant color, the fresh scent, the explosion of the sweetness found in the words.
"SURPRISE!
It's a book party
stacked with all
your favorite
friends:
A picnic of
words + sounds
in leaps + bounds."
Reading has an effect on each of our senses and elevates the imagination with which we take in those words. As creative as the words that invite every reader to find and read what is personal and meaningful to them, Ms. Sweet's magical images bring the joy found in books to full life on every spread, every gatefold, each half page and diecut. New readers will appreciate the guidance; experienced ones will understand the joy.
In an author's note, Kwame Alexander explains how this wonderful guide to reading came to be.
"Every parent knows there is always one book that the kid wants to hear over and over again. For mine, it was Miffy. We read it in the mornings, at naptime, in the car, and at bedtime. She simply never wanted it to end, and each time, she smiled and laughed and wriggled and ahhhed, like it was always the first time. I think writing the poem that became this book was my way of capturing our family reading experience on paper. Of painting a picture of the journey readers take each time they crack open a book, get lost in the pages, and wander through the wonder."
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