Smiling (Small World) - Hardcover

Gwenyth Swain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840891793 ISBN 13: 9781840891799

Publisher: Zero to Ten, 2000

Synopsis

Explores the importance of smiling to people all over the world.

About this title

About the Author

Gwenyth Swain is the author of more than two dozen books for young readers. A two-time winner of a Minnesota Book Award for children's nonfiction, she loves history and historical fiction. Ms. Swain runs the middle school and high school libraries at Twin Cities Academy in St. Paul. Formerly, she was a costumed history player at historic Fort Snelling, a soda jerk, and a bookstore clerk.

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2-An attractive but slight offering. Each page contains a color photo of smiling faces featuring children from around the world (the locales are identified in a note at the end). The pictures were taken by a number of different photographers and vary in quality and tone. The captionlike text loosely ties the pictures together, giving reasons why people smile. For example, "Smiling is a way of saying, 'I'm happy!' without words. It's a way to let your feelings be heard." Swain uses near rhymes like this often, and many of her points are either trite or obvious. Sometimes, too, the connection between text and photo is tenuous. The book's design is appealing though, with photos set on creamy marble paper. Collections needing numerous titles showing different cultures may want to consider buying this, but others can rely on the more vivid and cohesive books by Ann Morris and Ken Heyman, such as Houses and Homes (Lothrop, 1992).
Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zero to Ten
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840891793
• ISBN 13: 9781840891799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24