![]() We loved this book! I except to see a Caldecott award on future publications of this book. ![]() FLOAT is the lovely story of a boy, a boat, and his rainy day adventure. ![]() Sometimes the best stories are the ones that lack words, but who's pictures capture the emotion and heart of the story better than words ever could. With out any words, each illustration featured through out the book tells more than words could say. This is one of the most beautifully illustrated picture books I've seen. ![]() This seemingly simply story from Daniel Miyares is enriched with incredible depth and texture that transcend words. So of course the little boy goes on the hunt for his beloved boat, and when the rain lets up, he finds himself on a new adventure altogether. Daniel Miyares has illustrated books such as Bambino and Mr. The boy and his boat dance in the downpour and play in the puddles, but when the boy sends his boat floating down a gutter stream, it quickly gets away from him. Source: book from publisher to review, in exchange for my honest reviewĪ boy's small paper boat and his large imagination fill the pages of this wordless picture book, a modern-day classic from the creator of Pardon Me! that includes endpaper instructions for building a boat of your own.Ī little boy takes a boat made of newspaper out for a rainy-day adventure. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In this book, Svetlana Alexievich asks the question, what about the women who were actually at the warfront? The women who were soldiers, snipers, sappers, doctors, nurses, truck drivers, tank drivers, engineers, technicians, pilots, mechanics, cooks, laundresses, sailors, partisans? After asking this question, Alexievich goes on a quest into the past, finds out more about these women who were in the Russian / Eastern front during the Second World War, meets with many of them, interviews them and discovers their stories and compiles them into this book. The second type of book or story is about how women handled the challenges in the homefront when their male family members were away at the warfront. Normally, when historians and commentators and biographers write about the role of women in a major war, it is typically about how women worked as nurses and tended to wounded soldiers, like Florence Nightingale during the Crimean war, or like Vera Brittain in the First World War, an experience about which she wrote movingly in her memoir ‘ Testament of Youth‘. So, I was surprised when I discovered this book, which is on an unconventional topic, atleast unconventional for its time (this book was originally published in Russian in 1985, so it was far ahead of its time). ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew Svetlana Alexievich mostly as the writer of ‘ Secondhand Time‘, which seems to be her most popular book. 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