Window Music - Hardcover

Suen, Anastasia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670872873 ISBN 13: 9780670872879

Publisher: Viking Juvenile, 1998

Synopsis

As the train journeys along the track, one passenger describes the many wonderous things that can be seen from the window as they speed through the country, including vineyards, valleys, bridges, cities, and more.

About this title

About the Author:

Anastasia Suen and Wade Zahares' most recent book is Delivery.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-As a young girl sleeps, a train passes by outside her bedroom window, presaging the day she leaves her grandparents' house to journey home by rail. After waving farewell at the station, the youngster and her mother travel from countryside to city, passing through meadows, orange and banana groves, ice-capped mountains, and seascapes of breaking waves. The scenery is, in fact, the "window music" that entertains the child until the city's skyline looms and Dad awaits at destination's end. This straightforward excursion is conveyed through rhyming text of five-to-six words on each two-page spread. The brevity perfectly captures the staccato rhythm of a rail journey. While simple and direct, there are moments of compelling imagery, "street after street/under our feet," as well as predictable onomatopoeia, "wooo! wooo!/passing through." Zahares's bright and thickly painted palette is wonderfully light-infused. The sinuously curving lines reinforce the loopy track and the panorama, viewed from both inside and outside the chunky train, is ever-changing. The illustrations are idealized and dreamlike, a combination of childlike simplicity and the occasional surreal image. This quick and jolly read-aloud is right on track.
Carol Ann Wilson, Westfield Memorial Library, NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0670872873
• ISBN 13: 9780670872879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Zahares Wade