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findbeauty_choosejoy's review against another edition
2.0
A wordless picture-book. This one is so-so. -Just a dog being blown or carried all over the place in an umbrella. Little to nothing ties together the transition in locations. An up-side is that it has a menagerie worth of animals.
beecheralyson's review against another edition
4.0
This wordless picture book has beautiful illustrations. A dog finds an umbrella and thanks to the wind, ends up on an adventure. It is important to pay attention to the end pages as well.
tashrow's review
5.0
A wordless story told in vivid images, this book will whirl readers into an adventure. A small dog finds a red umbrella and sails up in the autumn breeze into the air. He walks on the clouds, visits Africa with its elephants and alligators, yikes! Off he heads into the air again, carried this time to the expanse of the ocean where his umbrella serves as a boat. Until that is, he sinks down below the surface only to be blown high from a whale’s spout. He is carried into the jungle in a strong breeze and then caught by a pelican and lifted higher. Then down onto the snowy peak to be met with the applause of seals. His umbrella becomes a sled, sweeping past polar bears and then up into the air again. Bats join him in flight until down below amid the autumn leaves, his house appears. He puts the umbrella back where he found it and where a cat who has watched him come and go just might have an adventure too.
There is a wildness to this book that is as refreshing as a strong autumnal wind. It comes from the wandering of the breezes and the wildlife that the little dog experiences. The book captures his emotions with great skill from the delight of sledding down snowy hills to the utter exhaustion at the end of his travels.
This is a book that does not need words. The images capture the story fully, allowing readers to create their own story from the expanse of world that they get to see. Children will revel in walking on top of clouds, of meeting elephants, of escaping arrows, and of finding the way back home.
A perfect read for fall that will inspire imagination, this book opens and closes with gusts of wind and swirls of autumn leaves. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
There is a wildness to this book that is as refreshing as a strong autumnal wind. It comes from the wandering of the breezes and the wildlife that the little dog experiences. The book captures his emotions with great skill from the delight of sledding down snowy hills to the utter exhaustion at the end of his travels.
This is a book that does not need words. The images capture the story fully, allowing readers to create their own story from the expanse of world that they get to see. Children will revel in walking on top of clouds, of meeting elephants, of escaping arrows, and of finding the way back home.
A perfect read for fall that will inspire imagination, this book opens and closes with gusts of wind and swirls of autumn leaves. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
emilyn's review
5.0
This is a very cute book for toddlers about a dog who gets his paws on a red umbrella that takes him on an adventure around the globe.
mat_tobin's review
4.0
When a rather inquisitive black scottish terrier stumbles across an abandoned red umbrella with his feline friend, little did he know that a wild and wondrous adventure awaited. All it takes is a heavy autumnal wind and he's off! With the umbrella open, our little adventurer is slave to the winds and whims of all he encounters in the sweet little wordless picturebook. The wind carries him across the world until he arrived back home....for the cat to have a go!
The Schuberts are a much-celebrated partnership in the Netherlands; akin to Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Here, their wordless escapade will delight young readers since their is so much to see on dog's journey across the globe. From an African plain to the depth of the ocean and across the Arctic, the reader has much to spot and explore and will continue to find more with repeat readings.
Although scenes of 'Africa' can comes across as limiting alongside tribespeople living in the Amazon, there is still much to enjoy and be shared here.
The Schuberts are a much-celebrated partnership in the Netherlands; akin to Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Here, their wordless escapade will delight young readers since their is so much to see on dog's journey across the globe. From an African plain to the depth of the ocean and across the Arctic, the reader has much to spot and explore and will continue to find more with repeat readings.
Although scenes of 'Africa' can comes across as limiting alongside tribespeople living in the Amazon, there is still much to enjoy and be shared here.
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