Two by Two - Softcover

Reid, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590744070 ISBN 13: 9780590744072

Publisher: Scholastic Canada, Limited, 1994

Synopsis

Barbara Reid has taken the story of "Noah's Ark" and turned it into a rollicking rhyme accompanied by her trademark Plasticine illustrations. Mr. Christie Award Finalist. Ruth Schwartz Award.

About this title

About the Author:

BARBARA REID is an acclaimed Canadian author and illustrator, who won the CBA Libris Award's Children's Author and Illustrator of the year in 2007. Creator of such favourites as: Sing a Song of Mother Goose, Read Me a Book, and The Subway Mouse, Barbara Reid is adored by children, parents and teachers alike.

From Publishers Weekly:

Three-dimensional artwork of extraordinary richness highlights this verse retelling of the Noah story by the illustrator of The New Baby Calf. Reid's vibrantly colored, sculpted Plasticine illustrations give her pictures the illusion of depth seldom achieved with conventional techniques. The intricate spreads teem with activity rendered in real-as-life tactile detail: characters wear robes trimmed with textured embroidery; Noah's long beard descends in whorls like white icing on a cake; every painstakingly molded fin, feather and strand of fur on the arkful of animals begs to be touched. The palette is equally impressive, as the cloud-filled sky darkens and lightens again with the passing of the storm, and the deep blues of the sea offset the pinks and oranges of the sun-drenched landscape. There are cleverly crafted shifts in perspective, too, notably a bird's-eye-view of the animals boarding the ark. Only the text, consisting of original lyrics to a traditional tune, fails to match the art's sparkle: Reid tells the familiar tale in (occasionally limp) iambic tetrameter that sometimes sacrifices scansion for rhyme. Readers will nonetheless enjoy counting along as the animals--from the tiniest mice to the biggest elephants--clamber aboard this beguiling ark. Ages 5-8.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Canada, Limited
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0590744070
• ISBN 13: 9780590744072
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32