'You can climb up on the flower barrel and tap,' she says, 'then duck down and they won't know who did it.' Her grandparents welcome her into a sunlit, spacious kitchen filled with plants, where she doodles and listens to Poppy play 'Oh, Susannah' on the harmonica. A curly haired girl-who dances with wiggly energy in Raschka's lush paintings-describes playful visits to her Nanna and Poppy, whose kitchen window provides the perfect venue to say hello and goodbye.

Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth) crafts a cozy portrait of a grandchild and her grandparents in this endearing book, illustrated in paintbox colors by Raschka (Be Boy Buzz). Reynolds, Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Hillsboro, OR Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. Perfect for lap-sharing, this book will find favor with children and adults alike.-Angela J. The artwork is at once lively and energetic, without crowding the story or the words on the page the simple lines and squiggles of color suggest a child's own drawings, but this is the art of a masterful hand. Using a bright rainbow palette of saturated color, Raschka's impressionistic, mixed-media illustrations portray a loving, mixed-race family. While the language is bouncy and fun, it is the visual interpretation of this sweet story that sings. Sentences such as 'When I get tired I come in and take my nap and nothing happens until I get up' typify the girl's happy, imaginative world. The first-person text is both simple and sophisticated, conjuring a perfectly child-centered world.

It's where the girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye. PreS-Gr 1-The window in Nanna and Poppy's kitchen is no ordinary window-it is the place where love and magic happens. Raschka’s mixed-media illustrations are characteristically loose and energetic, depicting this happy, biracial family with jewel tones and extravagant swirls.Īs the little girl unwinds at the end of the stay, she imagines the many possible visitors who might come to the Hello, Goodbye Window-but no one is more happily welcomed than her parents, who pick her up after her picture-perfect day. Juster adopts the voice of the child, whose present-tense narration is just right, describing pleasures (saying good night to the stars) and perils (the tiger at the back of the garden) with a steady, sweet candor. The exuberant tot proceeds to spend a thoroughly idyllic overnight with her loving grandparents, the stay punctuated by a harmonica serenade, a bike ride (“Not in the street, please”) and a nap. On the title page, a little girl springs away from her parents turn the page, and the reader sees only her arms on the gate, the reader taking her perspective as she looks over to the white clapboard house where her Nanna and Poppy’s faces stare equally eagerly out of the Hello, Goodbye Window.

The hello goodbye window book