Winter Days Spring Days

by Kate Colley, Dale Nigel Goble (Illustrator)

Overview

An introduction to the seasons, these flip books can be read forward, backward and upside down! Designed by award-winning graphic designer Dale Nigel Goble and written by communications expert Kate Colley, Winter Days Spring Days and its companion title, Summer Days Fall Days, showcase the best of the season's activities in vibrant illustrations and rhyming verse. Chilly walks and fuzzy wool socks. Little babies in their nest, and robins showing off their best.

Toddlers and early readers will love seeing their favorite seasonal features in this exciting format that offers two books in one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459821095
Publisher:	Orca Book Publishers
Publication date:	09/24/2019
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

Kate Colley is a media specialist who founded Colley Communications, a marketing communications agency, in 2007. Having always enjoyed working with words, Kate often finds herself writing rhyming poems and creating catchy songs for her two busy children. She lives in Vancouver.

For the past fifteen years Dale Nigel Goble has created award-winning multidisciplinary work, using graphic design, illustration, painting, screen printing and sculpture. His artwork appears in private and corporate collections around the world and has been featured in design magazines, newspapers and various digital media. Recent clients include Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the United Nations and several others, both large and small. He lives in Duncan, British Columbia.

Editorial Reviews

"Goble’s digitally created illustrations are simple and engaging...A fine home or institutional purchase."

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

"Goble’s digitally created illustrations are simple and engaging...A fine home or institutional purchase."

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

2019-12-18
In this two-in-one board book, discover the joys of various seasons.

With one half of the book dedicated to winter and the other half to spring, the two sections are bound back to back, necessitating a turn upside down in the middle. While some books use this two-part format in innovative ways that enhance the story, this flip feels cumbersome, as it adds no real richness and serves only to slow readers down. As a read-aloud, it stumbles as well, as the meter in the short couplets is off in places, and even when the rhyme does scan, lines such as "snowman to make / ponds to skate" are none too exciting. Flat, graphically simplified illustrations feature a multiracial cast of characters with round faces, black dotted eyes, and small, semicircular smiles, making them look like mildly exaggerated emojis. Sometimes these depictions of people work; other times they look misshapen, like oddly proportioned clothes perched upon a personified lightbulb. Better are the richly colored and stylized close-ups of seasonal objects like colorful cups of cocoa, red-and-white striped socks and vividly black-and-gold bumblebees. These bright, rounded objects are adorable, especially those with cute, kawaii-style happy faces. A companion book dedicated to summer and fall is slightly stronger, with catchier rhymes and lots of seasonal brightness.

Though the flippable format doesn't add much, the illustrations are eye-catching. (Board book. 6 mos.-2)

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