September 2013, Orion Children's, 64 full colour pages, Paperback, Review copy
Themes: love, friends, family, cats, colours,
clothes, scents, food,
Summary from Orion
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Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.
Basma has been wondering a lot about love. What is it like? Does it have a shape or a colour or a taste? Is it like a coat or a jumper or a shawl? Or is it like a warm woolly hat?
Basma has been wondering a lot about love. What is it like? Does it have a shape or a colour or a taste? Is it like a coat or a jumper or a shawl? Or is it like a warm woolly hat?
Nayuleska's thoughts
I chose this book purely because the title
intrigued me and the cover made me smile. Love is a complex concept, as the
narrator find out. She finds love means different things to different people,
that it can't be fully explained simply. To understand love is to experience
how friends and family treat you. I enjoyed watching the narrator visit each
family member and define love as they portrayed it.
The illustrations feel warm
and fuzzy, just like love can feel. I liked the cat by a tipped over basket
with balls of yarn on the acknowledgement page, the slightly see through bird
wings, the weird looking storage area for clothes, how most of the characters
wore traditional Islamic head coverings and in keeping with some Islamic tradition
rarely had a full view of their face,.
For more from Vivian check out her website.
Suggested read
Vivian has retold an Islamic themed story, My Own Special Way
(Children's, 5 years +, 10/10E)
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