White Book: A Minibombo Book

by Silvia Borando, Elisabetta Pica, Lorenzo Clerici

Overview

No words are needed—and unexpected things can happen—when a boy, some bold paint, an active imagination, and a white wall come together.

Roller in hand, a boy starts to paint a blank wall. First it’s a plain coat of pink. Then six birds emerge, perched on a branch. . . . Wait, they were there a minute ago! Then he tries the blue paint, and it happens again: fourteen fish swimming in formation, until green paint reveals a giant dinosaur with big teeth and a mind of its own. Whether gray, yellow, purple, or orange, each spread draws on visual humor and an array of unpredictable animals to yield a bigger surprise, right up to the warm and rewarding finale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763681074
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	08/25/2015
Series:	Minibombo Series
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

A collaborative project among Silvia Borando, Lorenzo Clerici, and Elisabetta Pica, a creative team with a background in illustration, animation, and design, The White Book is one of a playful series from minibombo, a children’s publishing house based in Italy that brings together a love of stories, illustration, and interactivity to create innovative graphic picture books.

Editorial Reviews

A sweet celebration of the imagination and nifty validation of persistence.
—Kirkus Reviews

A winner for all picture book collections. Use to introduce a simple painting activity and pair it with the books in the “Harold and the Purple Crayon” canon.
—School Library Journal

Providing some humor to readers while also encouraging reflection, this picture book is funny and creative, and encourages readers to read between the lines to figure out what might be happening.
—Literacy Daily

From the Publisher

2015-04-29
A cute child in a bowl cut goes wild with buckets of paint in this wordless book. Using a roller, the child paints a white wall successively all-over magenta, blue, green, gray, yellow, purple, and orange. Just as Harold created a living environment with his purple crayon, in this book the act of painting the wall draws and brings to life a succession of animals, revealed in white crayoned outline as the paint covers the wall. On the magenta wall, birds appear, but they fly away. Fish materialize out of the blue wall, but similarly, they swim away. A stegosaurus snarls scarily from the green wall, and a huge elephant squishes the child into the corner of the gray wall. A tall giraffe on the yellow wall lifts the child by the back of the shirt, and a purple aardvark tries to steal the roller. Indefatigably, the young painter continues, and persistence is rewarded; a delightful puppy emerges from the orange wall. Finally: a friendly animal to play with. This simple, wordless narrative neatly expresses the theme of so many wordier and more convoluted picture books: if you keep trying, you can get what you want. Or, more simply, eventually you will find the friend who is the right size and wants to play with you. A sweet celebration of the imagination and nifty validation of persistence. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews