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Do you ever look at a picture and find yourself swept up into a memory so strong you can then smell and feel that moment in time the memory was created? That happened to me when I saw the cover of Pictures from Our Vacation by Lynne Rae Perkins. And what was it that triggered the memory? The boardwalk. The memory? Girl Scout Camp Ouachita I first attended the summer after the second grade; my small hometown had no swimming pool and the lake was the pool for camp; it is where I learned to swim and to canoe. Different levels of water were divided by boardwalks, it was from these boardwalks we dived into the water as one was considered “soft” to go into the water by ladder.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally that last “hurrah” of summer, a time to catalog our summer memories for safe keeping to be brought forward through the years in many and varied ways…perhaps even by a book cover!
Happy Reading!
Carol
Twitter: @RascoFromRIF
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the content of the book. I hope you will share your favorite “cover story” with me now and then!
September 6th, 2010
It is a fact, plain and simple: The cover of LIFE, AFTER by Sarah Darer Littman is one of the most beautiful covers I have ever seen. Over and out. And from what I have heard – and I try hard not to learn much, if anything, about a book’s story or its history before selecting it for Cover Story - this book almost had a very different cover. I am delighted it is this shade of blue with this particular tree design. As I walk into my office each day this book’s cover cheers me.
And now, I am ready to read the story behind the beautifully designed cover!
Happy Reading!
Carol
Twitter: @RascoFromRIF
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the content of the book. I hope you will share your favorite “cover story” with me now and then!
August 30th, 2010
What an excited group of three young ladies I heard talking about this book in the bookstore over the weekend. They have a book “just like this” in their school and they have a “real, live cat” at their school, too. Kindergarten Cat is by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Ailie Busby, published by Schwartz and Wade Books, 2010.
This morning as another school week begins for them, I’ll be thinking about those three little girls with twinkles in their eyes as they talked about “school.” I told them to keep the story a secret from me, I wanted to read it myself; but they could not contain themselves in telling me “this book has rhyme in it.” I asked if they knew what “rhyme” means and they quickly started a list: cat, hat, mat, rat and more…isn’t it invigorating to see children excited about learning?
Happy Reading!
Carol
Twitter: @RascoFromRIF
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the content of the book. I hope you will share your favorite “cover story” with me now and then!
August 23rd, 2010
It’s my first COVER STORY featuring a ”whole new kind of picture book” – an app!
I love pink (no surprise to many of you!), and recently I learned Emma loves pink as well. Emma? She was created by Piret Raud, an Estonian artist who works in Tallinn as a graphic artist, book illustrator and writer. According to her website, Piret has “illustrated over 40 books and also written several stories for children.” One of the stories written and illustrated by Piret is EMMA LOVES PINK which has now been produced by Winged Chariot as a digital book in English, Japanese and Estonian for the pre-school age child.
Let me know if you have seen Emma in action and just what you think!
Happy Reading!
Carol
Twitter: @RascoFromRIF
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the content of the book. I hope you will share your favorite “cover story” with me now and then!
August 16th, 2010
Having visited Spain earlier in 2010, this book’s cover front and back captured my attention as it so accurately portrays in its detailed drawings the villages on the mountainside I saw throughout northern Spain’s countryside. What will we learn inside in this book by Mitsumasa Anno?
Join me as we open and explore….
Happy Reading!
Carol
August 9th, 2010
Richard McGuire has written and illustrated/designed what appears to be by its “cover” a fun, bizarre book titled WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS BOOK? I read some interesting articles about him as I prepared to place this post. I will now look forward to opening the book and turning the pages!
Happy Reading!
Carol
Twitter: @RascoFromRIF
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the content of the book. I hope you will share your favorite “cover story” with me now and then!
August 2nd, 2010
AUNT MARY’S ROSE by
Douglas Wood with illustrations by
LeUyen Pham has a familiarity about the cover picture, what is it? It did not take long in the bookstore for me to realize a haunting similarity to Jamie Wyeth’s
Island Roses which is a favorite painting of mine.
Is this cover revealing a game of hide and seek? Will it, too, turn out to be on a beach?
Happy Reading,
Carol
Twitter: @RascoFromRIF
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the content of the book. I hope you will share your favorite “cover story” with me now and then!
July 26th, 2010
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the full content nor review the book. However, I do return to the book and read it…today for the first time I share three of my favorite Cover Stories with you.
I let no grass grow under my feet after posting this book on Monday, July 12. As noted at the time, I was intrigued by the title THE TREE HOUSE in relation to the artwork…such a mystery! Upon opening the book I learned this book by Marije Tolman and her father, Ronald Tolman, is a wordless book. The “reader” learns the polar bear riding on the whale’s back glides by a tree rising from the water, and yes, there is a tree house at the top of that tree. Bear then receives a guest, a brown bear who emerges from a boat. And the bears soon discover this tree house is the perfect place to read. Later when the water goes down, they are joined by other animals that arrive by air and land. As the SLJ reviewer noted “Children will gaze in wonder at this tree house and understand the rhino’s longing (and obvious impatience) to be up in its branches. This oversize picture book celebrates acceptance of others and the splendor of nature.” In short, this tree house is a place of wonder. An interesting exhibit was staged at the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam when the book was released; read about the museum’s young visitors’ participation in the exhibit. While some sources have noted this is a book for pre-school ages only, I disagree; I believe early elementary children will enjoy the book, and it can be used to promote creative storytelling.
THE QUIET BOOK by Deborah Underwood and illustrated by Renata Liwska (scroll down the page to see a special section of the illustration process) was an April COVER STORY. This is a book as noted in the comment section of the original post that my grandson and I are already enjoying. I have also appreciated “quiet moments” to think about the kinds of “quiet” I enjoy most. In this beautiful little book, my two favorites are “Best friends don’t need to talk quiet” and “First snowfall quiet” —aaahhhh. The one addition I would make is my all time favorite “quiet”…”everyone else is in bed quiet.” What is your favorite quiet?
A March Cover Story featured one of my favorite foods: CUPCAKES! IT’S RAINING CUPCAKES by Lisa Schroeder is a fun story for ages 9-12 and might fool you that it is far more than a book about cupcakes although that storyline is attention holding in itself. But perhaps due to my counseling background with students this age, I found the book one many young girls in particular would appreciate as the mother shows vulnerability, she lacks confidence in herself. In the book we witness Isabel learning to give her mother appropriate emotional support. Added to this is the very typical 12-year-old / Mother inability to always see eye to eye on issues; it is handled well and in a believable manner by Schroeder. I would be interested in having a discussion with a small group of upper elementary school girls after they read this book. And I sure liked the author’s line in her bio when she noted her family finds this their favorite book by Mom to date, the research on cupcakes was a terrific experience…and they are glad she wasn’t writing about lima beans!
Happy Reading!
Carol
July 21st, 2010
LUCY’S FAMILY TREE written by Karen Halvorsen Schreck and illustrated by Stephen Gassler III (a graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia living in Hazlet, New Jersey) was in a bookstore window I passed recently, the store was closed. I like the coral border, the watercolor wash forming the background (is it fabric?). I was struck as well by the “different” kind of family tree the smiling young girl I assume to be Lucy is holding.
Published by Tilbury House I understand this book is recommended for grades 3-6. It is one I look forward to reading.
Happy Reading!
Car0l
Twitter: @RascoFromRIF
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the content of the book. I hope you will share your favorite “cover story” with me now and then!
July 19th, 2010
Who would not be intrigued by this “cover” with the words saying “Tree House” and the picture of a big blue ocean with a polar bear riding a very large fish? The beautiful shades of blue are both soothing and “cooling” in this heat we’re experiencing in DC, more reasons to like this cover. I am eager to find out how a “tree house” relates to this water cover!
THE TREE HOUSE won the The BolognaRagazzi Award 2010.
THE TREE HOUSE
Marije Tolman (Illustrator), Ronald Tolman(Illustrator)
Published by Lemniscaat
Marije studied at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts and at the Edinburgh Class for Art in Scotland and spends her time as an illustrator in the Netherlands; Ronald is Marije’s father.
A special thank you to Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast for showing this cover yesterday – I sure hope 7-Imps is indeed able to interview the artists, I would love to know more!
Happy Reading!
Car0l
Twitter: @RascoFromRIF
Cover Story is a feature every Monday on Rasco From RIF where I share with you the “face” of a book that has caught my eye or that readers have submitted. Cover Story does not discuss the content of the book. I hope you will share your favorite “cover story” with me now and then!
July 12th, 2010
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