The Hello, Goodbye Window
by Norton Juster
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Author: Norton JusterIllustrator: Chris Raschka
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2005-05-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 32
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Michael Di Capua Books
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Book Review: Builds Connections Between a Grandchild and Grandparents
Summary: 5 Stars
Two generations ago, many grandchildren grew up enjoying daily contact with at least one set of grandparents. In our wildly spread-out families today, grandparents are more likely to jet in for a brief visit. How can a grandchild hope to appreciate the special relationship that can be had with supportive, loving grandparents? The Hello, Goodbye Window can help.
In this book, grandparents are on center stage while parents recede into the working background. That's a nice change of focus for a start.
But these aren't remote grandparents, these are caring grandparents who pay a lot of attention and are always around. Any child would feel much more secure thinking about this concept of extended family.
The illustrations are spectacular: They could have been done by a gifted youngster (reminding me of Picasso's comment of how hard it is to make art like a child is) which makes the pages more accessible to a young grandchild.
I particularly like the way many of the skin hues didn't make you immediately think of one kind of ethnic background. As a result, many of the illustrations will probably make many young readers feel it's a book with illustrations about people who look like them.
A particular advantage of this book is that it could be used as a model for a child to create his or her own book (along with illustrations) about her or his grandparents and what they all do together. Now wouldn't that be fun!
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