My Book and Me
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 23 Jul 2024
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- €10.99
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- Pre-Order
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- €10.99
Publisher Description
A celebration of books and reading from Newbery medal winner Linda Sue Park and illustrated by two-time Caldecott medal winner, Chris Raschka.
This is my book.
My favorite book.
I carry it with me
wherever I go.
Meet the child who loves books in this lyrical tribute to the joys of books and reading by Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park and featuring the jubilant illustrations of celebrated Caldecott artist Chris Raschka. My Book and Me invites us to reflect on beloved books which are friends we hold dear; books we read over and again; books that may take us to places afar to experience the world in different ways, and books that comfort and reassure us. This jubilant paean to literature is a celebration of our favorite authors, characters, and stories; those that we cherish the most and are friends for life . . . which books are your favorite?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Newbery Medalist Park and two-time Caldecott Medalist Raschka celebrate the ways children shower their books with love—and what they get in return—in a picture book that catalogs reading's pleasures. In each spread, a child, painted in lush, loose, rounded strokes, describes the way volumes teach, feed, and free them. "This is my book," announces a young person who strides along beneath an umbrella, a book under a slicker-clad arm: "I carry it with me/ wherever I go." A page turn later, another describes a book with "jam on the cover/ from yesterday's toast/ and crayon inside/ from when I was little." Other spreads note the way books let readers create alternate selves ("I move like the characters"), recall language ("I know every word"), and offer escape ("I don't hear you call./ I can't come right now"). While the artwork expresses the children's passion in all its messy liveliness, the chorus of autonomous voices both persuades and invites: "Do you have a book?/ A favorite book?/ A book that you love/ the way I love mine?" Characters are portrayed with various abilities and skin tones. Ages 3–6. Author's agent: Ginger Knowlton, Curtis Brown. Illustrator's agent: Brenda Bowen, Book Group.
