Gem
by:
Holly Hobbie (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B006YC79OS
Publish date: April 3rd 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Just sweet and simple and mostly wordless except for two letters which bookend the story perfectly.
This book is largely wordless, and the pictures are so soft and beautiful, that it was very easy for my niece and nephew to fall into the story and see the world through Gem's eyes. They liked this little toad, and found his adventure entertaining and heart-pounding. The wordless nature of the boo...
How does Holly Hobbie do it? She somehow is able to tell the story of a toad in a way that is both beautiful and fresh and charming without edging into cutesy or preciousness. This wordless book depicts the spring of toad, a spring full of adventures and follies and near-fatal experiences as well as...
Lovely wordless story framed between letters exchanged between a grandmother and granddaughter.