I Wonder Why
Gr 2-5-A loosely rhyming text explores a child's relationship to the natural world and expresses wonder at the world of nature. The text flows through the pages of highly stylized illustrations that look childlike but have an artistic sophistication similar to psychedelic work of decades past. This book is a fine piece of work but might have difficulty finding an audience. The pictures are interesting and engaging with every inch of page covered with brightly colored people and objects and backgrounds in different hues. The text is best read aloud to a group, but then artwork can't be appreciated. The rhyming text is uneven and it is sometimes difficult to maintain the rhythm, but the content is important to share. A creative adult could use this for discussion or to lead into many areas of science, caring, questioning, or other directions.Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FLCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.