Contemporary scholarship, for example, no longer thinks of the dinosaurs as descended from lizards, or dully colored, or inattentive parents. Kathleen Kudlinski's book is well positioned to move a reader from young unconditional love to a slightly more scholarly take. And the best thing about dinos? What we think we know about them keeps changing, so there's always more material ahead. (Feb.Children make their love for dinosaurs visible, all the way from pajamas to a passionate desire for almost any book about them. This uplifting tale suggests that one child can make a difference-a powerful message for readers. A glossary helps readers understand the sprinkling of Haitian Creole in the narrative. "One year at a time, little circles of hope began to grow on the mountainsides of Haiti, and inside each circle grew a tree," Williams concludes. Each grows from a deep blue trunk it is easy to imagine what the shade of the leaves means to the people standing beneath it. She shows Facile and Lucía cavorting in the green lollipop-like branches of their fully-grown tree, then draws Haiti's rounded hills, each with more stone circles and more round green trees. ) portrays Facile's new hope by replacing hot colors with cool tones. Pastels with small, soft-edged figures, dwarfed by landscapes saturated with orange and yellow, give a visceral sense of Haiti's hot sun and hardscrabble hillsides. When the boy realizes he can protect Lucía's gift with stones, his hope returns, and the tree begins to grow. Goats eat the first sapling, the rain washes away the second, and the third is burned by a land-clearing fire.
Young Facile plants a mango tree for his baby sister Lucía, but his good intentions are not enough to keep it safe. ) frames the tale of a Haitian boy's struggle to keep a tree alive against the larger story of his country's struggle against poverty.
In this hopeful, gentle account, Williams ( Galimoto
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