Whisper Power: And Other Stories

Whisper Power. And Other Stories By Myron C. Peterson In WHISPERPOWER, Myron Peterson describes an eclectic group of characters as he traces an.
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The little girl gets a book and goes outside to read it, but the letters from all the words in the book trail behind her. That particular illustration you can see now in Karen's fine review, and it is stunning.

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But why do the words leave the book? Dunno, and this could be a problem for the story, but anyway, initially she is sad about this. Then she gets adult advice that I am not sure a kid needs, having read several silent picture books with kids: So then with every always gorgeous illustration in the book the girl is reading, she begins a story about it.

I like each of the illustrations. And I even like these stories. I suppose by example they can urge readers to imagine their own stories, perhaps. But I'll tell you what I would have preferred: I wish those pages were just silent so WE or little kids reading it could tell our own stories of those pages. Or at least SOME of these illustrated pages! This is the Fox who, in the Fable, couldn't reach the grapes so decides they must have been sour, anyway. This is cool and surprising and again helps us make the point that stories can be rewritten. So why four stars? Ironically, for a book that purports to teach about the powers of the imagination in viewing art and illustration, this one has far too many words!


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It does too much work for us in interpreting what is going on! Read it and see I say this as a former journal editor if you couldn't cut the word count in half! Still, I liked it a lot, I really did. Pamela Zagarenski's detailed mixed media illustrations are magical, as always: The story, however, is not particularly interesting and kind of overwritten: Jan 14, Amy rated it liked it Shelves: The paintings in the book were magical and multi-layered.

After a brief storyline that the book had no words, only pictures, each page was captioned with a series of brief introductions that went nowhere to indicate that the child was making up the stories herself. If this was an indication that the reader should do the same, why ruin the effect with a weak intro to every painting.

Pictures - 5 stars Story - 2 stars. Sep 30, Liza Nahas rated it it was amazing. I don't use the phrase "must-have" often, but this is a "must-have" for every child's collection. Well, and my own collection too!

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Dec 09, Michael Fitzgerald rated it liked it Shelves: I very much liked the illustrations, but the story was both unsatisfying and heavy-handed. Jan 12, Akoss rated it liked it Shelves: This book to me is about the power of imagination.

What do you do when you find yourself in front of a beautiful painting or picture? You can't help but wonder about the story behind it. One little girl decided to do more than that and actually use her words to tell the story behind each picture in this book. Although I love a lot of things about the book including the gorgeous illustrations I can't shake the feeling that something is missing. But maybe I am the one missing the point instead? I This book to me is about the power of imagination.

I will most likely revisit this book again. Aug 26, Edward Sullivan rated it it was amazing Shelves: A lovely fable about the magic of storytelling and the power of imagination with fanciful, resplendent illustrations. Beautiful illustrations and I love how the story talks about storytelling and wordless books. Apr 07, Nicola rated it really liked it Shelves: This is a beautifully charming book full of wonderfully imaginative illustrations.

There is an overarching story in a bookended kind of way about a little girl who borrows a book, loses the words, and then hears a whisper encouraging her to make up her own story. The middle of the book has illustrations that are intended more as story starters with an opening line or two. You can either just kind of read the book through or choose an illustration and make up a story. Jan 16, Gordon rated it it was ok Shelves: The Whisper , written and illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, has been highly praised by many readers as a wonderful book that encourages imagination, full of amazing illustrations.

While I agree that the illustrations are very artistic and highly imaginative, I found the story - as well as the story within the story - to be very convoluted and unenjoyable. The story is about "a little girl who loved stories" with words and pictures that "took her to new and secret places that existed in a world al The Whisper , written and illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, has been highly praised by many readers as a wonderful book that encourages imagination, full of amazing illustrations. The story is about "a little girl who loved stories" with words and pictures that "took her to new and secret places that existed in a world all her own".

The little girl borrows a "magical book of stories" from her teacher, but while carrying the book home, all the words and letters escape from the book. She's left with pages full of pictures and, despite loving stories, can't really enjoy the book because as she sees it, the book didn't have any stories since there weren't any words.

It would appear that the book's "magic" amounts to a set of loosely adhered words. That, it seems, is its only trick.

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Having given the book a brief scan, and with a noticeable pout, the little girl decides to employ her imagination and provide her own story to each picture. Again, no magic is being employed, so why the book is described as "magical" is confusing. Now we come to the stories within the story. This is the part where readers are encouraged to employ their own imaginations to complement the illustrations.

However, with each of these illustrations, the little girl's conjured narrative provides the initial sentences of a story, pre-imagined by Ms. Any faith that young readers will come up with a story well-suited to her complex, but lovely illustrations seems to be out the window. After several pages of grand iose illustrations provided for a faux magical-mystery-tour, we rejoin the earlier narrative, and it's time for the little girl to get to school and return the book to her teacher, who offers only a small amount of encouragement about the stories the little girl imagined.

Maybe because she overslept and is late for class. Oh, there's a fox, who not only appears in every wordless illustration in the story-in-a-story, but is apparently in the "real" world too, and hands the little girl a bagful of words that he caught as they escaped from the book the day before. The fox speaks so apparently the "real" world is a rather imaginative place already, despite the little girl's inability to employ her own imagination from the start , and asks the girl if she would give him a boost up to a bunch a grapes in exchange for his good deed of collecting and returning the wayward words.

That, in a large nutshell, is what happens in this book - except for an odd addendum on the end-papers that gives us the author's weirdly edited one paragraph version of Aesop's The Fox and the Grapes. The book is an oddity. It indeed has lovely pictures from the two-time Caldecott Honoree, but it fails miserably with the story and with the intention of exercising a child's imagination. Zagarenski does best with the pictures and not so much with the words this was her first attempt as author and illustrator combined.

The greatest amount of imagination needed with this book is on the part of adults who will need to figure out how to surmount this book's hurdles. Dec 29, Ivan rated it it was amazing. Gorgeous illustrations and a story the champions the imagination, creativity and leaves the reader exhilarated. A little girl borrows a story book from her teacher. On the walk home all the words fall out and when she opens the book all she finds are the illustrations. She hears a whisper: I adored this book and think Pamela Zagarenski is a genius. Dec 20, Maren Prestegaard rated it really liked it.

This book was so totally for me. I'm so totally a dunce when it comes to wordless books and the protagonist of this book explores that concept. Just gorgeous in the illustrations, the font and the little touches throughout. The cadence and the plot are a bit tricky for a read BUT could imagine this one as a precursor to David Macaulay's lovely books.

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