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I quite liked the art, but the story felt off somehow. Too obviously a very important lesson? Maybe I was just thrown off by the fact that it was an immigrant story of a hundred years ago, rather than a modern immigrant story? I don't know. I was fascinated that Chinatown was only three blocks. I'...
Quick, lovely read. I went to the library to look up some stories based in Argentina and found a children's book based in Patagonia. "Ghost Hands" is written by T.A. Barron, and the beautiful, color illustrations were drawn by William Low. The tale is about a boy named Auki, of the Tehuelche tribe...
This was a good choice for a one-artist picturebook. Too often it's the writing that is difficult to pull off, so a concept book doesn't really demand the control of a narrative or poem. We get to focus on Low's representational art instead of worrying about whether he can pull off the text. Low has...
I really liked the story. The illustrations were okay but not stellar. The real strength here was the narrative, bringing a fairly plausible (and heroic!) explanation to why there's just one foot painted in the Cave of the Hands in Patagonia. I love books that bring ancient history to little kids in...
Fabulous illustrations and cool flaps.
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