This is a wonderful picture book to share with your students or your own children. The theme is one of Mrs. Rylant's favorite; appreciate where you are and who you are with. This book screams the sentiment, "Home Is Where The Heart Is". The text in this book walks us through the rooms of a house starting with the front porch and ending in the attic. Each room has two or more pages devoted to it. The main focus of the text is not the room itself however,but the goings on in each room. That is what makes the room special. That is what makes a house a home.
The illustrations in this book are remarkable as well. Every single page is a full bleed. Many of the pages are done in a style that is similar to a scrap book with lots of little snap shots of life in that room. The colors are warm and inviting and there are so many things to see on each page that you could read the book several times and see something different each time. The style is folkish and the medium is water color.
I loved sharing this book with my daughter. We were able to have a wonderful discussion about our home and our family as well as her grandparents house and the houses of other friends and relatives. We decided that although all the houses were different the thing that they had in common, the most important thing was that the people we love and who love us are there.
I would like to share this book with students as well. I would like to use the book to spring board discussion about their homes. I recently came across a cool art activity in a highlight magazine that would go along well with this story. Essentially the student uses magazines and newspapers to find pictures of different rooms in a house or the things that go in a house. They are to draw the outline of a house including the rooms and then "decorate" the rooms with the pictures they found. I think this would provide some insight into what the child views as important in their homes. It would also mirror the style of illustration used by Wendy Anderson Halperin uses in this book.
Here is yet another book that I MUST now purchase.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Let's Go Home: The Wonderful Things About a House By: Cynthia Rylant Illustrated By: Wendy Anderson Halperin
This is a wonderful picture book to share with your students or your own children. The theme is one of Mrs. Rylant's favorite; appreciate where you are and who you are with. This book screams the sentiment, "Home Is Where The Heart Is". The text in this book walks us through the rooms of a house starting with the front porch and ending in the attic. Each room has two or more pages devoted to it. The main focus of the text is not the room itself however,but the goings on in each room. That is what makes the room special. That is what makes a house a home.
The illustrations in this book are remarkable as well. Every single page is a full bleed. Many of the pages are done in a style that is similar to a scrap book with lots of little snap shots of life in that room. The colors are warm and inviting and there are so many things to see on each page that you could read the book several times and see something different each time. The style is folkish and the medium is water color.
I loved sharing this book with my daughter. We were able to have a wonderful discussion about our home and our family as well as her grandparents house and the houses of other friends and relatives. We decided that although all the houses were different the thing that they had in common, the most important thing was that the people we love and who love us are there.
I would like to share this book with students as well. I would like to use the book to spring board discussion about their homes. I recently came across a cool art activity in a highlight magazine that would go along well with this story. Essentially the student uses magazines and newspapers to find pictures of different rooms in a house or the things that go in a house. They are to draw the outline of a house including the rooms and then "decorate" the rooms with the pictures they found. I think this would provide some insight into what the child views as important in their homes. It would also mirror the style of illustration used by Wendy Anderson Halperin uses in this book.
Here is yet another book that I MUST now purchase.
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