It's Picture Day Today!

by Megan McDonald, Katherine Tillotson (Illustrator)

Overview

An annual event in every elementary-school classroom is the taking of the group portrait. Here, the “kids” are made up of buttons and bits of string, cardboard, feathers, grommets, and such, and are a pretty disheveled lot before Glue (late; “stuck in traffic”) arrives to sort everyone out and settle everything down. An imaginative invitation to seeing, to creative crafts, to story-hour performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416924340
Publisher:	Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Publication date:	06/23/2009
Series:	Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover)
Edition description:	Repackage
Pages:	36
Product dimensions:	10.80(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Megan McDonald, beloved author of the Judy Moody books, is also a gifted storyteller. She is the author of When the Library Lights Go Out, illustrated by Katherine Tillotson; The Hinky-Pink, illustrated by Brian Floca; and the now-classic Is This a House for Hermit Crab?, illustrated by S.D. Schindler. She lives in Sebastopol, California.

Katherine Tillotson is the illustrator of several children’s books, including All Ears, All Eyes; All the Water in the World; Shoe Dog; and It’s Picture Day Today!. Ms. Tillotson lives in San Francisco with her husband. Visit her at KatherineTillotson.com.

Editorial Reviews

Button's a little late, but no matter: It catches up to Feathers, String, Rings, Springs, Wheely Things and more, all in place for Picture Day. Someone's missing, though-who? "GLUE!" McDonald's rhythmic, minimalist text leaves lots of room for Tillotson's bright, extravagant collages, which, craft material by craft material, slowly take on the look of art-class projects, with clothespin "bodies," button "eyes" and Easter-grass "hair." Once Glue arrives-"Whew"-it gets to work, and a spectacular double-gatefold reveals the whole class, proudly lined up for their picture. The slowly building whimsy will fascinate young readers, who will pore over every creation and delight in the eclecticism of this cheerily oddball assemblage. A subtle, joyful celebration of non-prescriptive art. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews