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A review by calistareads
Uno's Garden by Graeme Base
4.0
Our library only has a few Graeme Base books and I read them all so I’m having to go ILL to see more of them and I’m glad that I did.
Graeme is such an artist. His stories have detail, personality and they are beautiful and fun to look at. He is also a puzzler, it seems. He loves to create puzzles for people to solve. This is a counting book, a puzzle book and a find-it-in-the-picture book.
He has 3 vectors to look for. Animals, plants and buildings. Each vector is doing something different. The back page explains it all. At the end we see that it’s also a bit of a nature book. The point of the story and the game is to see that we need to achieve a balance between these 3 vectors.
Of course, I’m working on a story and have been for years and years. The thing I am trying to achieve is that balance between human civilizaton and nature. I do believe we are smart enough to find a way to live with nature and we don’t have to be at war with one another. This book was perfect for me at this moment.
The nephew read this with me and then he and his dad took the book and went looking for all the stuff in the pictures. His dad explained some of the more complex math things like Prime Numbers in the book. You can read this and go to bed or you can use it to learn some higher type math stuff. He gave this 4 stars. He loved the one-eyed monkey things and he loved the name of the Puddlebuts, of course.
Graeme is such an artist. His stories have detail, personality and they are beautiful and fun to look at. He is also a puzzler, it seems. He loves to create puzzles for people to solve. This is a counting book, a puzzle book and a find-it-in-the-picture book.
He has 3 vectors to look for. Animals, plants and buildings. Each vector is doing something different. The back page explains it all. At the end we see that it’s also a bit of a nature book. The point of the story and the game is to see that we need to achieve a balance between these 3 vectors.
Of course, I’m working on a story and have been for years and years. The thing I am trying to achieve is that balance between human civilizaton and nature. I do believe we are smart enough to find a way to live with nature and we don’t have to be at war with one another. This book was perfect for me at this moment.
The nephew read this with me and then he and his dad took the book and went looking for all the stuff in the pictures. His dad explained some of the more complex math things like Prime Numbers in the book. You can read this and go to bed or you can use it to learn some higher type math stuff. He gave this 4 stars. He loved the one-eyed monkey things and he loved the name of the Puddlebuts, of course.