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misspippireads's review against another edition
4.0
2023 storytime theme: wind
Reviewed from a personal copy.
mat_tobin's review against another edition
4.0
A wonderful, cumulative tale which builds on many devices that Hutchins uses in [b:Rosie's Walk|420403|Rosie's Walk|Pat Hutchins|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1358594679s/420403.jpg|2889655]. Each page is a double-page spread with the characters beginning on the verso (left) and gradually, as the tension builds towards the recto (right).
Hutchins is an absolute master of the picturebook and I love how there is a constant hint at what is to come in each double-page spread. Her illustrations are bright and engaging with the white sky allowing us to focus on the landscape and the windswept trees and people. There is a lovely rhyming couplet sequence throughout and the sentences which read far more like a poem that some of her other work - again this works so well for the swirling, whirling motion of the wind.
Hutchins is an absolute master of the picturebook and I love how there is a constant hint at what is to come in each double-page spread. Her illustrations are bright and engaging with the white sky allowing us to focus on the landscape and the windswept trees and people. There is a lovely rhyming couplet sequence throughout and the sentences which read far more like a poem that some of her other work - again this works so well for the swirling, whirling motion of the wind.
taliaissmart's review against another edition
1.0
Simplistic, predictable story of the wind blowing things away. Fun illustrations
11khauer's review against another edition
4.0
A short, rhyming read. Illustrations leave a lot for children to look at and talk about.
mat_tobin's review
4.0
A wonderful, cumulative tale which builds on many devices that Hutchins uses in [b:Rosie's Walk|420403|Rosie's Walk|Pat Hutchins|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1358594679s/420403.jpg|2889655]. Each page is a double-page spread with the characters beginning on the verso (left) and gradually, as the tension builds towards the recto (right).
Hutchins is an absolute master of the picturebook and I love how there is a constant hint at what is to come in each double-page spread. Her illustrations are bright and engaging with the white sky allowing us to focus on the landscape and the windswept trees and people. There is a lovely rhyming couplet sequence throughout and the sentences which read far more like a poem that some of her other work - again this works so well for the swirling, whirling motion of the wind.
Hutchins is an absolute master of the picturebook and I love how there is a constant hint at what is to come in each double-page spread. Her illustrations are bright and engaging with the white sky allowing us to focus on the landscape and the windswept trees and people. There is a lovely rhyming couplet sequence throughout and the sentences which read far more like a poem that some of her other work - again this works so well for the swirling, whirling motion of the wind.
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