The Wordy Book
The Wordy Book
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Enchanted Lion
Annotation: What happens when words and pictures live completely on top of each other, bump into each other, and talk together? How might words paint a bird, while the bird sings the words?
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #257001
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Enchanted Lion
Copyright Date: 2021
Edition Date: 2021 Release Date: 09/14/21
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 1-592-70353-4
ISBN 13: 978-1-592-70353-1
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2021008308
Dimensions: 29 cm
Language: Spanish
Reviews:
Starred Review for Kirkus Reviews (Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2021)

Words and pictures connect in surprising, stimulating ways.Talk about painting with words. Author/illustrator Paschkis plays with them, too, and encourages readers to do likewise. In the process, she explores the elasticity and seemingly endless possibilities of language. The vividly colored, wittily detailed, folk-style paintings on double-page spreads organically incorporate words into the artwork in wondrous, creative ways. Words frequently repeat in different sizes and colors; illustrated images include words that sound or are shaped like them, are variations of them, rhyme or nearly rhyme with them, sort of resemble them, are sort of spelled like them, etc. A bouquet of flowers in a vase sports roses exuding the scents of slumber, sultry, shush, and other evocative words beginning with S; on a daisy's petals readers find dizzy, doozy, lazy, jazzy; lief, leap, life, and more decorate the leaves. Delightful words-many of which readers won't know, and that's OK-flex vocabulary and spelling muscles to the max and also enhance readers' visual and auditory senses when the pictures are taken in. Furthermore, the spreads are connected to thought-provoking questions. Some inspired the paintings, or vice versa, and themselves contain examples of wordplay. Persons depicted have diverse skin tones. The book makes a great springboard for creative-thinking activities in writing and art units in classroom and library programs. Keep dictionaries handy. Endpapers abound with swirling words readers can savor (and look up).In a word, a feast for the eyes, brain, and artistic imagination. (author's note) (Picture book. 6-10)

Kirkus Reviews (Fri Oct 04 00:00:00 CDT 2024)

Words and pictures connect in surprising, stimulating ways.Talk about painting with words. Author/illustrator Paschkis plays with them, too, and encourages readers to do likewise. In the process, she explores the elasticity and seemingly endless possibilities of language. The vividly colored, wittily detailed, folk-style paintings on double-page spreads organically incorporate words into the artwork in wondrous, creative ways. Words frequently repeat in different sizes and colors; illustrated images include words that sound or are shaped like them, are variations of them, rhyme or nearly rhyme with them, sort of resemble them, are sort of spelled like them, etc. A bouquet of flowers in a vase sports roses exuding the scents of slumber, sultry, shush, and other evocative words beginning with S; on a daisy's petals readers find dizzy, doozy, lazy, jazzy; lief, leap, life, and more decorate the leaves. Delightful words-many of which readers won't know, and that's OK-flex vocabulary and spelling muscles to the max and also enhance readers' visual and auditory senses when the pictures are taken in. Furthermore, the spreads are connected to thought-provoking questions. Some inspired the paintings, or vice versa, and themselves contain examples of wordplay. Persons depicted have diverse skin tones. The book makes a great springboard for creative-thinking activities in writing and art units in classroom and library programs. Keep dictionaries handy. Endpapers abound with swirling words readers can savor (and look up).In a word, a feast for the eyes, brain, and artistic imagination. (author's note) (Picture book. 6-10)

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Starred Review for Kirkus Reviews (Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2021)
Kirkus Reviews (Fri Oct 04 00:00:00 CDT 2024)
Reading Level: 2.0
Interest Level: K-3

"Some children’s books feel like classics the first time one encounters them. It’s not hard to imagine young poets embracing The Wordy Book as warmly as new generations keep embracing The Little Prince.” ―Naomi Shihab Nye, for the New York Times


Publishers Weekly High-Concept Picture Book for Children
Selected for 2021 Society of Illustrators Original Art Exhibition


This book is a collection of paintings made up of words upon words, all moving, interacting, and creating a visually stunning and wordy universe. Each page contains a question to be answered with the words that lie within. What happens when words and pictures coexist in such a way, bump into one another, are in constant conversation? How might words paint a bird, while that very bird sings the words themselves? This book invites readers to participate in a vibrant celebration of language itself.


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