From: Carin Bringelson <carin>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:43:21 -0600

I was so excited to learn about Chris Raschka winning the Caldecott.

I especially appreciate the book for the first-person perspective ("nothing happens until I get up"), and, of course, the artwork.

I love the colors, the sense of energy or movement, the whimsy. I like the outdoor scenes, I like the bedroom scene, and I like the way the pictures help us say goodbye to Nanna and Poppy in a sequence: hugging, separated by a window, then waving from the front gate.

There's a great movie of Chris Raschka at http://www.teachingbooks.net/Raschka
(Wisconsin residents have free access to all of TeachingBooks through Badgerlink at http://www.badgerlink.net/).

In the TeachingBooks movie, Raschka says, "One way to express something in the world on a piece of paper or in art is to allow the paintbrush to express itself." Well, that paintbrush sure expressed itself in _The Hello, Goodbye Window!_

Does anyone have guesses at to what medium he used? Looks like more than just water color paints to me...

Carin Bringelson Madison, Wisconsin
Received on Fri 10 Feb 2006 09:43:21 AM CST