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Due 2024-04-20
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Publication
New York, New York : Viking, 2018.
Description
A celebration of the joy of being outdoors features a child who abandons his digital device in favor of joining a friend outside.
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LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Author/illustrator David Covell offers a poetic tribute to the joy of running wild through the outdoors in this, the third picture-book he has produced. Minimal but poetic text - "Hey, You, Sky's blue! (forget your shoes) OPEN that door and... Sprout, you're out!" - is paired with bold
Run Wild is my first book from Covell, and struck me as a particularly personal work, one influenced by its creator's own boyhood days in the wild of Maine. The text is interesting, in that it employs rhyme in an irregular way, but it was the artwork here that was the chief appeal for me. It has a wild, unstructured feeling, and is full of a sense of movement that works very well with the narrative. Recommended to anyone looking for new picture-books about the joy of getting out into their outdoors, especially during the summer.
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illustrations, which look to be done in watercolor. From exploring the cool darkness of the forest to experiencing the hot sand at the shore, there are many pleasures to encounter in this lovely summer-time idyll...Run Wild is my first book from Covell, and struck me as a particularly personal work, one influenced by its creator's own boyhood days in the wild of Maine. The text is interesting, in that it employs rhyme in an irregular way, but it was the artwork here that was the chief appeal for me. It has a wild, unstructured feeling, and is full of a sense of movement that works very well with the narrative. Recommended to anyone looking for new picture-books about the joy of getting out into their outdoors, especially during the summer.
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Physical description
30 cm
ISBN
0670014117 / 9780670014118
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