The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Hello, Goodbye Window
Book Review: A warm, cozy story.
Summary: 5 Stars
My 5-year-old LOVES this story - and I enjoy reading it to her. The sentiments are lovely and the prose is wonderful. Illustrations are colorful and fun. A great book.Book Review: Delightful and Endearing
Summary: 5 Stars
My daughter is 6 years old, and this is one of my all time favorite books we have ever read. It captures the sweet and magical love between children and grandparents. I loved the illustrations and the text is like something taken right from a child's mouth, in the most simple and poignant way. In my mind it is a classic and something I will be buying for children for many years to come. Book Review: The Hello, Goodbye Window: A Familiar Experience with Grandparents
Summary: 5 Stars
As a teacher, I used The Hello, Goodbye Window during our family theme to discuss grandparents and the special relationships children have with them. My Pre-K students did not connect with the symbolism of the window, but enjoyed the pictures of the grandparents' house. This book launched a great discussion of the children's experiences with their own grandparents.
Author Norton Jester uses simple events and experiences, such as running through the sprinkler, to describe a child's magical experience at her Nanna and Poppy's house. Chris Raschka's illustrations are colorful and imaginative - almost as if one of my students drew them. However, this open and artistic style did not detract from my students' interest in this text.
This text is a great launching point for a discussion about grandparents for the early childhood and primary education fields. Educators with primary age students would be able to discuss the significance of the window. Relevant for all ages, this text highlights a child's special relationship with her grandparents - a relationship children treasure.
Book Review: Loved the book...
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought the book was adorable. My in-laws watch my son and we actually refer to them as Nana and Poppy. So, it was very funny to have the book refer to the grandparents with the same title. My son could totally relate to the book. We gave it to my in-laws as a present so that they can read it to their grandchildren.Book Review: The Hello, GoodBye Window
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very happy and cheerful book. It is told from the point of view of a child and she is speaking to the reader. It is written in very kid friendly language.
The "hello, goodbye window" is the downstairs window in the kitchen at the little girls Nanna and Poppy's house. She is explaining how it is unlike any other window. Whenever she goes to their house she can say hello and have fun with them through the window before she gets in the house. She can look through the window once inside and see a lot of what's going on in the world around the neighborhood around her.
One of the real nice things about this book is that it doesn't completely focus on the window. Like I mentioned before, the window is in the kitchen. The girl and her grandparents spend a lot of time together in the kitchen looking through the window, but also making their favorite meals, talking, laughing, and listening to Poppy play his harmonica.
This book goes deeper than just talking about a window in a house of a kitchen and that is what I really like about it. It's more about being together will family and those that you love. It's about sharing what you have, in this case it was time, fun, experiences and love. The window also serves as that constant we sometimes have in our lives in a place where we can be ourselves and be safe. Something that connects us to what's around us and the people around us.