Sun Flower Lion
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- $9.500
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- $9.500
Descripción editorial
A
sun. A flower. And a lion. With three visual motifs, three colors, and fewer than 200
words, renowned Caldecott Medalist and #1 New York Times-bestseller Kevin
Henkes cracks open the wide world and the youngest child’s endless imagination.
This irresistible picture book is a must-have for every reader and every
family.
On
a warm morning, a little lion sleeps under a sun that shines so brightly, it
looks like a flower. He dreams the flower is as big as the sun. He dreams the
flower is a cookie. He lets his imagination soar.
Caldecott
Medalist Kevin Henkes uses simple shapes, limited colors, and a
pitch-perfect text to tell Lion’s story in this transcendent picture
book. Sun Flower Lion introduces emerging readers to short
chapters, action verbs, and adjectives, while bright illustrations transform
simple shapes into something magical.
Sun Flower Lion will shine at story time and bedtime and for young
children just learning how to read on their own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Simple words and repeating forms draw beginning readers into this iterative volume by Henkes (Summer Song). Its central visual element, a circle with a ruffled edge, could signify the sun, a flower, or a lion with a mane and here, it's all three. Divided into six short chapters, the story's sentences relate the three objects to each other. First, readers meet the sun: "The sun is in the sky./ It is shining./ It is as bright as a flower." In chapter two, a ruffled circle appears with a stem and leaves; it's a bloom that "looks like a little lion." In chapter three, the motif forms the head of a stumpy feline ("He smells the flower./ He warms himself in the sun") who dreams, wakes, and runs home. Readers see the hill, but not the traveling lion ("Can you see him?/ No, you can't./ He is running too fast"). Yellow spreads convey warmth and light, while gray, hand-inked blades of grass cover the hill. Signlike artwork and straightforward text fit together as neatly as building blocks in this lighthearted reading exercise. Ages 4 8.
