My Mother's Voice

Ryder, Joanne

ISBN 10: 0060295104 ISBN 13: 9780060295103

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

Lyrical text describes a mother's voice as she sings, hums, encourages, cheers, comforts, and shares secrets with her daughter during the course of a day.

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About the Author

Joanne Ryder has always loved pandas, starting with the very first small panda toy she had as a child. She has continued to be fascinatd by these rare and wonderful animals throughout her career as a writer. She is the award-winning author of numerous picture books, including A Pair of Polar Bears: Twin Cubs Find a Home at the San Diego Zoo; Little Panda: The World Welcomes Hua Mei at the San Diego Zoo; My Mother's Voice; My Father's Hands; Big Bear Ball; and Wild Birds. She lives in Pacific Grove, California, with her husband, Laurence Yep, who is also an author.

From Booklist

K-Gr. 2. In this companion to Ryder's equally loving My Father's Hands (1994), a young narrator pays tribute to her (single) mom by appreciating the voice that "calls me from darkness to light" in the morning, into the house at nightfall, and, in between, offers conversation, support, consolation, and comfort. Depicting parent and child with his usual liquid realism, Catalanotto dresses them informally and poses them in bright domestic settings, capped by an unforgettable image of parent and child standing back to back in front of the sink and belting out a duet into spoon "microphones." Mother is a bit two-dimensional (aside from one pensive moment, her equanimity never wavers), but Ryder's lyrical tone never turns syrupy, and her story will strike a responsive chord in many children. This will work well alongside Kathryn Lasky's Mommy's Hands (2002). John Peters
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060295104
• ISBN 13: 9780060295103
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Catalanotto Peter