The Green Line
By Polly Farquharson
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Online price: £11.99
This title is currently availableHardback, 36pp Published: 28th May 2009 Category: Early Literacy, Picture information Interest age, years: From 4 To 7 Key Stage:  |
What beautiful weather for a walk in the park, but before you go, what better way to prepare than to read The Green Line. Simple yet stunning, charming, beautiful, delightful, inspired, natural and very special are just a few words that may pop into your head when you read this gorgeous book. ... Every child and parent will be inspired to make their own photo-illustrated book after sharing this one together. What makes this one extra special though is the green line that cleverly runs through the whole book like an emergent writer, drawing and writing about their experiences. - Early Years Educator
This simple but effective little photo essay would make a lovely first nature book for children of two and up. - Financial Times
A beautiful book of photographic images, which tracks a walk through the countryside with narration by an unseen child. The green line connects the route from start to finish. An engaging book to read together after a walk. - Irish Times
An unusual and distinctive first nature book. - Nursery World
This unusual and rather beautiful book is a journey in photographs of a child's walk in the park. Each element is vividly pictured: the zebra crossing, wild flowers by the fence, a cloudy sky, a friendly dog, ripples in a puddle and so on. The pictures are so evocative that a pre-schooler would enjoy looking at them alone as well as listening to the simple text. - Northern Echo
A quirky, attractive book and should enhance any walk in the park with your child. - INIS
The design is brilliant and the concept is simple: at one level it is an obvious pre-school book of shared experiences, with ssshhh and BOO! to add to the joining in, or an eye-opening aid to seeing the rich wonders of an ordinary walk. Then again it is a superb book of nature photos just as they stand. At any and at every level this is a lovely book. - School Librarian
With its fresh green palette, this book is a pleasure to read. Enjoy it and be inspired by it. Get out and make your own green line! - Carousel
This charming and highly original book follows a child's path on a walk to and through a park. Written and photographed by a leading professional photographer, it draws on her experiences of walking on London's Hamsptead Heath with her own young children. Photographs of highlights of the walk such as blossom on a tree, flowers growing through a fence, a grassy hillside for rolling down, clouds in the sky, a friendly dog, rain splashing in puddles and much more are linked with a simple first person narrative text . Visually the reader's eye is drawn from page to page by a child's doodle, the green line, which could be the end of a stick being dragged along the ground throughout the walk. This simple idea, beautifully presented through stunning photography and graphic design, not only provides much food for discussion but stimulates children to look at the everyday wonders around them and use their imaginations.
36 pages
