Who Came Down That Road? - Softcover

Lyon, George Ella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0531070735 ISBN 13: 9780531070734

Publisher: Orchard Books, 1996

Synopsis

Mother and child ponder the past in discussing who might have traveled down a very old road, looking backward from pioneer settlers all the way to prehistoric animals

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews:

A mother and child look at a path near their home, ``Just a trace through the woods'' but one that's long been traveled. Answering the child's questions, the mother tells how her great- grandparents used the road, then moves back to Civil War soldiers, earlier settlers, ``Shawnee and Cherokee,'' buffalo, mammoths, a warm sea, and finally ``Questions! Questions crowded like a bed of stars...the mystery of the making place....'' As he did for Lyon's Cecil's Story (1991), Catalanotto provides cinematic, out-of-focus illustrations, shimmering with light shining through leaves toward the observer, occasionally superimposing images for a dreamlike effect; the film technique extends to placing the title page several spreads into the story, so that the title becomes part of the text. A lovely, beautifully crafted book that makes an unusually effective response to a prototypical question. (Picture book. 4-7) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

PW's starred review praised the "lean, lyrical text" and "shimmering, luminous paintings" in this "extraordinary picture book that clarifies but does not oversimplify the difficult concept of historical time and evolution." Ages 4-7.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0531070735
• ISBN 13: 9780531070734
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Catalanotto Peter