The Wildest Book … Ever?
When weeding, sometimes you come across a book that makes you think, “this would make a good blog post”. Occasionally, as is the case today, an entire tribute blog seems more appropriate.
How about I’ll start with a post and see where this goes.
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For a moment, let’s bask in the glorious unusualness of Hands Off! by Mario Mariotti, a wordless, plotless book featuring painted hands playing soccer.
These next two are incredible:
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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That is amazing. I’d love to get my hands on his Hanimals collection (which has a few pages up on Pinterest). Great stuff… and I certainly can’t think of any other picture books like it. Thanks for sharing!
That Hanimals book is wild too!
I have the Hanimals book in my school’s collection. Every year there is a child who checks it out obsessively.. These books are so fascinating. Do not weed them, ever.
That made me laugh so hard.
Mission accomplished
This book is great! Any idea how I could get my “hands on” a copy of this book? My daughters would love it! Is it out of print?
This is so cool!
Keep that gorgeous flower in your garden. I hope a publisher puts it out for us again.