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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
Personally, I don't care for the rhythm, but I'm sure it will suit others nicely. I am taken by the warm illustrations, the cats are especially cute.
Kinda cute. I had never heard of the chiasmus form of writing before, so I found the author's note about the book's structure very interesting.
Pretty pictures and two-word rhymes tell the story of a day in the snow. A simple, quiet read.
Rating 2.5 stars
Red Sled follows a father and son on one snowy evening as they decide to trek up the nearest hill and sled down it.
With minimalist writing, I believe the illustrations really tell most of the story. Most of the sentences were made up of two words and I was wondering, why not just get rid of the words all together? I did not need them to tell me what was going on.
But at the end of Red Sled, there is an author’s note from Patricia Thomas that explained her minimalist style and merited a little head nod from me. Thomas indicates the structure of the story was inspired by an ancient form of writing called chiasmus in which a mirror image is created with thoughts, words, and sounds that climb to a center point before descending and reflecting to the end. Thomas adapted the chiasmus structure to create a “hill” with her words that matched the hill in the pictures. When she puts it that way, it seems really clever!
Whether you “get it” or not, Red Sled may be a fun book for the little ones who are more interested in the illustrations than the words anyway.
Recommended for children two to five years of age.
Read this review in its original format here.
Red Sled follows a father and son on one snowy evening as they decide to trek up the nearest hill and sled down it.
With minimalist writing, I believe the illustrations really tell most of the story. Most of the sentences were made up of two words and I was wondering, why not just get rid of the words all together? I did not need them to tell me what was going on.
But at the end of Red Sled, there is an author’s note from Patricia Thomas that explained her minimalist style and merited a little head nod from me. Thomas indicates the structure of the story was inspired by an ancient form of writing called chiasmus in which a mirror image is created with thoughts, words, and sounds that climb to a center point before descending and reflecting to the end. Thomas adapted the chiasmus structure to create a “hill” with her words that matched the hill in the pictures. When she puts it that way, it seems really clever!
Whether you “get it” or not, Red Sled may be a fun book for the little ones who are more interested in the illustrations than the words anyway.
Recommended for children two to five years of age.
Read this review in its original format here.