Door to Door: A Split-Page Picture Book - Hardcover

Roffey, Maureen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1879085801 ISBN 13: 9781879085800

Publisher: Charlesbridge, 1993

Synopsis

Rhyming text and split-page illustrations provide a glimpse at the activities inside and outside a row of 12 houses.

About this title

About the Author

Maureen Roffey and Bernard Lodge are the authors of The Grand Old Duke of York.

Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 2-Inside and outside views of everyday life in 12 houses on a neighborhood street are observed through split pages. The line-and-watercolor illustrations portray a busy, middle-class, integrated neighborhood; people of all ages are moving in, redecorating, sending and receiving love letters, having parties, going to work, catching robbers, getting bitten by dogs, and losing a pet mouse. The pictures are full of detail and activity. Unfortunately, the accompanying inane six-line verses about the inhabitants of each house confuse more than they illuminate. The times of day and the seasons change from page to page: Dan in #4 writes a sweet note in late spring to Amanda Klein in #9, and she receives it in the fall. Could it be that Joe the mailman (the one who is bitten by the dogs in #8) is out of commission for quite a long while? Satisfying the universal curiosity about what happens in other people's homes is a good theme, but the execution here is less than satisfying.
Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Charlesbridge
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1879085801
• ISBN 13: 9781879085800
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32