The Letter Q is a series of letters written from several gay authors to their younger selves. Many of these letter are affirmations, positive declarations about who the younger person will become. This collection is edited by Sarah Moon. Within the pages of this slim book the reader will find 64 of ...
The Letter Q is a series of letters written from several gay authors to their younger selves. Many of these letter are affirmations, positive declarations about who the younger person will become. This collection is edited by Sarah Moon. Within the pages of this slim book the reader will find 64 of ...
My daughter (8) and I read this - she articulating the pictures, me reading the words. She reviewed it as the "best book she's ever read" - though when I asked her to rate it from one to five stars, she chose four. I'll go with a five, but clearly she thinks there are better books out there waiting ...
I mean the book was okay for me... I know everyone loves Brian Selznick and the Invention of Hugo Cabret...but I felt just so sorry for Ben and everything he had to go through...that when it came to the end...I just wanted him to meet his father...I knew that something probably bad happen, and he wo...
Ben, a young boy, feels lost and alone ever since the death of his mother. Even though he lives with his aunt and uncle he doesn’t feel like he belongs. When loneliness get too much, Ben sneaks next door to the house he lived in with his mother and begins to look for something, anything to make hi...
Wonderstruck, by Brian Selznick, is a novel told in words and images, telling the entwined story of a young deaf girl who longs for escape and a boy curious about his mysterious past. The alternating chapters between Rose and Ben forward the story in a moving and interesting way, and Deaf culture is...
This one didn't work for me at all. I didn't particularly dig Selznick's illustration style, which was all cross-hatch, all the time, but not at all the subtle, breathtaking crosshatch of, say Timothy Decker. There were a few lovely vignettes, but mostly the style stuck me as heavy-handed, as did th...
The illustrations are wonderful. The first part of the book has a lot going for it and I love this format Selznick has created. He is ambitious. Big themes, lots of interesting ideas... I can't wait to see what he does next.Unfortunately, I began to loose interest as the separate stories collided. I...
A sheltered deaf girl in New York City runs away. Her story, very appropriately, is told in images, snapshots in pencil. Fifty years later, a boy in Minnesota whose mother has died runs away, to find his father. His story is told in words. The place where their stories meet is sweet, beautiful, ...
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