hello! hello!
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A girl helps her technology-loving family rediscover the beauty of nature in this book by Caldecott Award-winner Matthew Cordell.
Outside the world is bright and colorful, but Lydia's family is too busy with their gadgets to notice. She says Hello to everyone. Hello? Hello! Her father says hello while texting, her mother says hello while working on her laptop and her brother doesn't say hello at all. The T.V shouts Hello! But she doesn't want to watch any shows. Lydia, now restless, ventures outside. There are so many things to say hello to! Hello rocks! Hello leaves! Hello flowers! When Lydia comes back home she decides to show her family what she has found, and it's hello world and goodbye gadgets!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cordell (Another Brother) outdoes himself with this silly, loving nose-tweak to digital civilization. Lydia's electronic gadgets fail to charm her one afternoon, and her family members all drawn in shades of gray are lost in their own virtual worlds. "Pec Pec Pec," her father texts in an anonymous LCD font. "Zap Beep Pow," chirps her brother's video game. Led outside by a stray leaf, Lydia discovers trees, bugs, flowers, and a horse who knows her name. The outdoor world appears in full color, Cordell's text becomes hand-lettered, and the action unspools faster and faster. The horse carries Lydia through the flowers, picking up by twos and threes an improbable group of animal friends a fish, a gorilla, a swan, even a whale who chorus "hello" and thunder across the fields with them, until Lydia's cellphone rings and everything comes to a halt. Fortunately, upon her return, Lydia is able to entice her family outside. The vision of Lydia and her escape is a glorious image of liberation; it's required reading for any kid with a phone. Ages 2 6.
