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a Sick Day for Amos McGee
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From: Kathleen Horning <horning_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:59:54 -0600
Sarah, thanks for your thoughtful comments. I agree that "A Sick Day for Amos McGee" is a quiet book, and is easy to overlook among all the other splashy new picture books out there. But I'm glad I didn't. It definitely has grown on me each time I read it. And it does remind me of classic picture books from years past (most especially "The Very Nice Things" by Jean Merrill and Ronni Solbert).
In our discussions here, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out the significance of the red balloon. Any ideas?
On 1/21/2011 2:48 PM, Sarah Prielipp wrote: AMOS MCGEE evoked such a quiet, gentle mood that I think it was easy to overlook the complexity of the illustrations and how they enhanced the plot.
Received on Fri 21 Jan 2011 02:59:54 PM CST
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:59:54 -0600
Sarah, thanks for your thoughtful comments. I agree that "A Sick Day for Amos McGee" is a quiet book, and is easy to overlook among all the other splashy new picture books out there. But I'm glad I didn't. It definitely has grown on me each time I read it. And it does remind me of classic picture books from years past (most especially "The Very Nice Things" by Jean Merrill and Ronni Solbert).
In our discussions here, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out the significance of the red balloon. Any ideas?
On 1/21/2011 2:48 PM, Sarah Prielipp wrote: AMOS MCGEE evoked such a quiet, gentle mood that I think it was easy to overlook the complexity of the illustrations and how they enhanced the plot.
Received on Fri 21 Jan 2011 02:59:54 PM CST
