Senor Parrot's Perch

Take one sandy beach and endless rolling waves and you have a foolproof formula for a full day of fun. We’re far from any sandy ocean beaches where I live, and it’s two hours the nearest dunes along lake Michigan,  but Suzy Lee’s book, Wave, can transport you there in an instant.

This wordless book, illustrated with with watercolors of blue and gray charcoal, captures the essense of a young girl’s discovery of the wonder of the waves. The cover illustrations took me in immediately and I grabbed it for my 7-year old. She flipped through the pages again and again, and I suspect she imagined it was herself, alone on the beach with her mother. This is one worth owning that kids will enjoy for a long time.

Related posts:

1. Podcast review of So You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter and illustrated by Andre Carrilho
2. Toy Boat by Randall DeSeve, illustrated by Loren Long
3. You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!, a Biography by Jonah Winter and Illustrated by Andre Carrilho
4. Review: Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys and Gulls
5. Melrose and Croc: A Christmas to Remember

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 26th, 2010 at 7:34 am and is filed under Book Reviews, Children's Books, General, Illustrated Books, Picture Books. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.