Shadow

As before very interesting concept. I enjoy these book very much.

Interesting!

I bought this to use with a class of 5 year olds and I'm not keen on the pictures myself. The book is interesting and I shall try it out with the class and my opinion of the book might then change as I see its value.

It's for a present and I'm fully convinced that my friend will hasve a blast with this book. She's an illustrator!

This book is incredible, for what it is. It is a nonverbal book with no words (think Goodnight Gorilla) and almost no narrative (unlike Goodnight Gorilla). The book is oriented horizontally, and meant to be read with one page perpendicular to the ground, and the other page laying flat on the ground, to give the illusion that the shadows are being projected from the upper page onto the lower page.Each page, the shadows slightly change, suggesting what the girl is imagining, until she becomes wrapped up in the shadow world. Her play in the shadow world is disrupted by her mother's call that dinner is ready, and the final page reveals that her imaginative shadow play has made a mess of the garage she was playing in.My 4 year old really enjoyed this book, and after reading it, I held up a flashlight and let him make shadows on the wall, which he was thrilled with. I suggest doing the same, unless you are concerned about winding up your child before bed.Overall, this is a tremendous, inspiring, truly unique book. Just keep in mind that the lack of words prevents you from zoning our while reading to your child.

This is a very fun book. If your kid is visual or you'd like them to learn some visual skills, this is a great way. I'm expecting my first child now, but a friend who is a parent showed this book to me almost 10 years ago when I was in my mid-twenties and I absolutely loved it. Enough to have bought it now that I'll be a mom and to have remembered it all this time!

This is an interesting book. The wordless illustrations do invite curiosity and engagement. I read it multiple times with my 5 and 3-year-old grandsons. Each reading revealed different things. When they figured out what yellow meant, it was very exciting. It takes patience and a tiny bit of guidance, but this book bears many repeated readings.

I "read" this book for a preK class during a unit on shadows. They loved looking at it more closely when it was then put into the class library.

Exactly the type of book my daughter needed for her class.