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Title: If You Listen by Charlotte Zolotow, Stefano Vitale ISBN: 0-7624-1335-2 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: How can you know someone who is far away still love you?
Comment: I was fascinated by the idea that Charlotte Zolotow's "If You Listen" had been originally published in 1980 with different illustrations than those provided by Stefano Vitale for 2002 edition. You do not think of a children's book as having different illustrations; I mean, "Goodnight Moon" would not be the same classic book with different illustrations. But as I never read the "original" "If You Listen" (and could not find it around town) I cannot comment on a comparison of the artists.
"If You Listen" is a sensitive story about a young girl who misses her father who is far, far away and will not be coming home soon. The young girl asks her mother how she can know if her father still loves her, and her mother tells her to listen inside herself and she will feel his love. Zolotow paints lyrical pictures with her words of simple but enduring images of what you can hear if you really listen and Vitale actualizes these images with paintings down on wood, which provide a compelling texture to the art. There is a simple elegance to "If You Listen" that will make it a memorable reading experience for young children (ages 4-8) who are separated from a parent because of circumstances beyond their control. Of course, in this age of e-mail and phone cards Zolotow's solution may now be somewhat obsolete, but there is still a simple truth behind it that remains compelling.
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Title: Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky: Poems by Georgia Heard, Jennifer Owings Dewey ISBN: 1563976358 Publisher: Boyds Mills Pr Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Royal Bee by Frances Park, Ginger Park, Christopher Zhong-Yuan Zhang ISBN: 1563978679 Publisher: Boyds Mills Pr Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant, Mary Szilagyi ISBN: 0689714734 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 31 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland, Tatsuro Kiuchi ISBN: 0152014837 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe ISBN: 0689710550 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: 31 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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