Product Description

Creeping bugs and wiggling worms, splashing rain and glittering stars--nobody notices the details of the world around them more than children--and artists. Take a walk with bestselling picture book creator Lois Ehlert in this vibrant die-cut celebration of nature's many wonders. Complete with a simple rebus game, this gentle book of discovery will inspire readers of all ages to share their love for nature--and to look at the world in a whole new way.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321987 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-15
• Released on: 2002-03-31
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .43" h x 8.24" w x 8.46" l, .69 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 40 pages

From Amazon.com
There are far more than seven wonders in a child's world--award-winning illustrator Lois Ehlert's In My World reveals more than a dozen! Die-cut pages layer creature upon creature, each cutout giving glimpses of the next. An adjective on each vividly colored page provides a hint of the almost abstract shape, while the flip side names the image: "wiggling worms," "leaping frogs," "shining sun," "growing fruit." The clutter of colors and shapes is almost overwhelming at times, making it difficult to recognize the featured object. On the other hand, this jumbled quality beautifully suits the illustrations of butterflies and flowers and birds, for example. Young children will be fascinated by the magically shifting outlines with their brilliant, bold colors, and by the rebus poem at the end, which features all the shapes in the book.

Ehlert is the bestselling illustrator of Waiting for Wings, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault, and many others. (Ages 3 to 6) --Emilie Coulter

From Publishers Weekly
Unlike her past efforts such as Color Zoo and Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On, which demonstrated the concrete concepts of shape and number respectively, Ehlert's latest work enters the realm of the abstract, suggesting the interconnectedness of nature through a complex blend of shapes, colors and images. The deep-blue cover with a die-cut child-sized hand hints at hidden bounty: "My world is made of things I like," reads the opening. Above, large and small circular cutouts represent Earth, moon and stars. Ehlert goes on to show "creeping bugs," "leaping frogs" and "singing birds"; each action provides a clue, the turn of a page supplies the creature it describes. Layered on top of one another, each cutout contains elements of the others. Unfortunately, the sometimes unharmonious arrangements within the cut-out shapes compromise their integrity, making many of them difficult to identify. Successful standouts, such as the "butterfly," "pear" and "leaf," for example, offer a symmetrical presentation, helping young readers to predict the word on the next page. A rebus poem, which incorporates images from the book, fills the final spread. All ages.
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From School Library Journal
reSchool-Grade 1-Here Ehlert employs the same technique (bold-colored die cuts) that she used in her Color Farm (1990) and Color Zoo (1989, both HarperCollins). She starts out with the sentence "My world is made of things I like." A globelike circle reveals an inviting array of colors and shapes. With each succeeding page, complete with a single cutout, the artist then goes on to demonstrate the things she likes in nature: a creeping bug, a leaping frog, drifting seashells, growing fruit, etc. Depth of design is executed by means of page overlays, so that the pictures build on one another, and some images are more successful than others. A few of the overlapping items are not immediately clear and may cause confusion. The concluding double-page endpaper reintroduces all of the words in a rebus format, emphasizing how important it is to love nature. But, all in all, this book is more of an engineering feat than an effective depiction of the interconnectedness of all living things.
Rachel Fox, Port Washington Public Library, NY
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