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Title: The Queen's Progress: An Elizabethan Alphabet by Bagram Ibatoulline, Celeste Davidson Mannis ISBN: 0-670-03612-9 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: God Save the Queen!
Comment: British history nuts will get a kick out of this book. Fun for all ages! My kids love following the adventures of the little dog that appears on almost every page, and soaking up all the incredible detail that Ibatoulline crammed into his exquisite illustrations. There's a lot going on - a visual feast fit for a...Queen! As a certified Anglophile, I'm fascinated by the narrative at the bottom of each page, and the sometimes sassy, sometimes whimsical verse that moves along the 'story within a story'. Very unusual, very good! God Save the Queen!
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful, Lucious, Clever....Buy It!!!
Comment: This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever purchased for my daughter! Rich illustrations with clever rhymes and additional text make this a fun but educational adventure with Queen Elizabeth as she goes on "progress" and visits her subjects. Definitely a Caldecott contender!! I have also purchased Celeste Davidson Mannis's other book: "One Leaf Rides The Wind" and was expecting nothing less than excellence (and I was not disappointed).
Rating: 3
Summary: A published rough draft
Comment: Great idea. Bring the Elizabethan period closer by linking it with an alphabet book and factoids that interest children.
Lovely illustrations.
Now the bad part. Embarrassingly lazy rhymes, from the Moody Blues school of songwriting.
G is for garden,
And in it a maze.
Through a tangle of hedgerows
The queen makes her way
(You could have said, To be lost there for days, Making several ways, With their heads in a daze--so many real rhymes would have worked.)
Unfortunately, many of the "rhymes" are like that. They are awkward but could have easily been made right. The meter is also not quite right, which is too bad, because this has so much to offer.
The book would have worked better without the poems, because the pictures and the historical notes are so good.
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Title: All the World's a Stage by Rebecca Piatt Davidson, Anita Lobel ISBN: 0060296267 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathryn Lasky, Kevin Hawkes ISBN: 0374347883 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Fireflies at Midnight by Marilyn Singer, Ken Robbins ISBN: 0689824920 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: An American Plague : The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy ISBN: 0395776082 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 23 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems ISBN: 078681988X Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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