Have You Seen My Dragon?

Posted on 07 December 2017 by Steve Light

In the heart of the city, among the taxis and towers, a small boy travels uptown and down, searching for his friend Readers will certainly spot the glorious beast, plus an array of big city icons they can count Is the dragon taking the crosstown bus, or breathing his fiery breath below a busy street Maybe he took a taxi to the zoo or is playing with the dogs in the park. Read Have You Seen My Dragon? – kino-fada.fr I was a little disappointed that although the illustrations were full of lines they were not full of details That is, there aren t that many hidden things for kids to find or pick out it s just a drawing style that happens ... Check outpicture book reviews Perspective of a WriterIn the heart of the city, among the taxis and towers, a small boy travels uptown and down, searching for his friend Readers will certainly spot the glorious beast, plus an array of big city icons they can count Is the dragon taking the crosstown bus, or breathing his fiery breath below a busy street Maybe he took a taxi to the zoo or is playing with the dogs in the park This is one of those books that a child takes in the car on Check outpicture book reviews Perspective of a WriterIn the heart of the city, among the taxis and towers, a small boy travels uptown and down, searching for his friend Readers will certainly spot the glorious beast, plus an array of big city icons they can count Is the dragon taking the crosstown bus, or breathing his fiery breath below a busy street Maybe he took a taxi to the zoo or is playing with the dogs in the park This is o...Oh Much too fun exciting I m only halfway done and I m having to catch my breath.I want to own a copy just so I can color in the pages I mean, I know that the colored bits are of the countable objects, as this is a counting book, but I still want to color the rest of the buildings, cars, people, pigeons, etc Maybe the artist has some coloring pp on a websiteAnd I m learning a bit about the city, too making me realize just how wonderful a picture book can be that doesn t take place Oh Much too fun exciting I m only halfway done and I m having to catch my breath.I want to own a copy just so I can color in the pages I mean, I know that the colored bits are of the countable objects, as this is a counting book, but I still want to color the rest of the buildings, cars, people, pigeons, etc Maybe the artist has some coloring pp on a websiteAnd I m learning a bit about the city, too making me realize just how wonderful a picture book can be that doesn t take place on farm or suburb I m familiar with small town water towers on the prairie but it never occurred to me that ppl in cities use water towers, too, so they have enough pressure for faucets.Love the apes at the zoo Look carefully Heck, look carefully, whether or not you re familiar with city life Apparently it s distinctly NYC, and those in the know can use the maps in the endpaper to find their way among i..., , Goodreads ,, , , , , , 48 , , Goodreads ,, , , , , , 48 ,When I grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan I would get this little thrill every time my city appeared in a children s book Which is to say, every time it was mentioned in Horton Hatches the Egg Honestly, for all that it had a cool name it really didn t come up anywhere else New York kids must be rather jaded in this regard Anytime a city book is set somewhere other than Manhattan or Brooklyn, they probably scratch their little heads in confusion I can attest to this personally as my two year old When I grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan I would get this little thrill every time my city appeared in a children s book Which is to say, every time it was mentioned in Horton Hatches the Egg Honestly, for all that it had a cool name it really didn t come up anywhere else New York kids must be rather jaded in this regard Anytime a city book is set somewhere other than Manhattan or Brooklyn, they probably scratch their little heads in confusion I can attest to this personally as my two year old calls any and all cities she sees in books New York City and will not be corrected As a NYC transplant I d probably mind thisif it weren t for the fact that so many of these books are so doggone splendid Take Steve Light s latest, Have You Seen My DragonA riot of miniscule details, numbers, colors, familiar city...Sort of a Have You Seen My Duckling for an older age group, and with dragons Light doeswith black and white and fine lines than most hipster illustrators can do with the zillions of colors in their Adobe Paint programs Lots of fun, though it made me homesick for my beloved New York City.Love this You can work on counting, colors, searching, and even map reading of sorts all while embracing the fun things of New York City and enjoying a boy s search for his dragon So many possibilities in this book A fabulous lap read or read alone But I must try in storytime as well.2 18 15 Used in my Friends theme The kids adored this book They loved looking for the dragon They loved cou...I came home from I don t know, BEA or some damn thing with a promotional poster for this book I NEVER bring home posters, because they get bent and crimped and I just get cranky about that and I try to avoid crankiness But I toughed it out for this poster, which was pretty much the dust jacket of the final book.And I KNEW IT The minute I got that thing out of the tube, my ten year old and his father were belly down on the floor coloring the whooooole thing in They found every fire hydran I came home from I don t know, BEA or some damn thing with a promotional poster for this book I NEVER bring home posters, because they get bent and crimped and I jus...A counting book that gives tribute to urban life, you ll want to move to the city Steve Light has illustrated in this picture book Clever use of only spots of color in otherwise black and white pictures me...This would make an excellent coloring book I found myself wanting to add to his very spare use of color I loved that the story was added to my including counting opportunities, as well as the challenge of finding where the dragon was in each panel.

07 December 2017

Steve Light