While getting ready for a visit to their aunt and uncle's farm, two sisters talk about all the wonderful things they will do upon their arrival, from eating hearty country suppers and exploring the woods to napping in the hayloft and enjoying the beauty of the natural landscape.
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Reeve Lindbergh has written of the wonderfully Awful Aardvarks.
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K-Gr. 3. Two sisters' visit to their aunt and uncle's farm is re-created in Lindbergh and Halperin's charming collaboration. The individual events--playing in the barn, eating delicious home-cooked meals, experiencing a touch of homesickness----are less important than the heartfelt sentiment pervading the pages; the obvious affection the relatives feel for one another will warm the audience. The text, which uses four lines per spread with the last repeating the first, paints word pictures: "Windowpane, skylight, dormer and bay. / Light muslin curtains that rustle and sway. / Sisters asleep and dreaming till day. / Windowpane, skylight, dormer and bay." Halperin, whose pencil-and-watercolor artwork often seems like peering into a dollhouse window, uses the technique to best effect here. Arch-framed scenes take up most of the pages, but just below, strips of vignettes offer close-ups of the action. Ilene Cooper
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- PublisherDial
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0803711891
- ISBN 13 9780803711891
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages40
- IllustratorHalperin Wendy
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