Round Trip

Round trip is the simple story about the sites on a round trip from the country to the city and back again. Home to the city is read front to back, then you flip the book and read the story from back to front for the return trip. The black and white drawings form an optical illusion. Different

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scenes appear when you flip the book upside down. The story itself is simple, but the illustrations are unique and captivating. I spent a lot of time flipping the book upside down and marveling at the new scene that appeared. I would use this book as a mentor text to write about perspective. Secondarily, I would use it to write about contrasts.

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This interesting and unique book tells the story of a day trip through the country and into the city. The black and white artwork is simple, but what sets this book apart is that once the reader reaches the end, the book is flipped over and the story continues with new text to go along with the now

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inverted pictures. This clever format challenges the reader to think about their own perception of the images.

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Sweet chiaroscuro surrealism for chilluns. I like that you turn the book over, I like that it's inventive, I like that it evokes the childhood drive into the city at night, where you don't know where you're going and everything you see out the window is a brief ecstatic flash of mystery, and I even

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like that the flip-drawings don't work 100%, and leave some weird bits sticking out for, you know, Verfremdung.

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Martin McCarvell, Library Thing Review, June 29, 2009
Sweet chiaroscuro surrealism for chilluns. I like that you turn the book over, I like that it's inventive, I like that it evokes the childhood drive into the city at night, where you don't know where you're going and everything you see out the

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window is a brief ecstatic flash of mystery, and I even like that the flip-drawings don't work 100%, and leave some weird bits sticking out for, you know, Verfremdung.

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This is a very artsy book, with stark black-and-white pictures that can be flipped over to make NEW pictures. I think it's bound to boggle the brain of a kid when they read it, and that's part of what reading is for, right?

This is a wonderful book of black and white silhouettes depicting scenes along the route as a family goes to town. They see fields, skyscrapers, a tunnel, but the fun comes when they get to the end of the book. That is when the reader flips the book over and sees each picture in a new way, for the

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pictures are drawn in such a way that when looked at upside-down, they are a new scene.

I love to read this book to young children. They are fascinated to see how the pictures change depending on how you hold the book. They usually want to read it again right away. In fact, I enjoy looking at the pictures myself to see the illustrator's creativity.

This book would be good to use in a unit about travel or vacations. It could also be used in a unit about art or color. It is just a good book to use to help in cognitive development by encouraging children to look at things a new way.

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Black and white illustrations and text record the sights on a day trip to the city and back home again to the country.

"Round Trip" by Ann Jonas is similar to reflections. We go through a simple plot following someones day as they travel to the city. At the end of the book the reader must flip the book over and read it again. All of the illustrations become something else once the book is flipped. It is a good book

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to share with young children because it teaches them to look harder at the world to see what is hidden in every image. It is also a good book to use for older children to teach them about the different way of making art and manipulating imagery.

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Round Trip is a rare and fantastic journey for the reader of all ages. The illustrations, in black and white only, engage the reader to look closely, investigate each line and curve for detail and dimension and to capture a glimpse of how they are illusory to the picture created when turned upside

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down. The story text is simple yet so carefully supports the illustrations. With each page the reader is pulled along on an amazing round trip into the city on each page and leg of the trip asking of the illustrator, "How in the world did she do that!"

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Fun for kids to read because they will follow the round trip and have to turn the book upside down.

This book was fun to read with whole class! I put it up on the document camera so everyone could see the pictures at the same time. The kids loved it. Once I turned the book around some kids turned their heads upside down and then back up to see both things.

I would use this book for ascetic appeal. The pictures tell two stories and it is really fun to read.

When you peruse this book with out reading the text it is interesting, but once you read the text the pictures really take shape. It is amazing how much more detail I was able to see after adding the text. This journey so engaged me I handed it to a child in the library where I read it and

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recommended she read it.

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This seemingly simple yet wonderful story is accompanied by black and white illustrations. The story is the story of sights of a day trip to the city and back. What I found interesting and unique is tht the trip to the city is read front to back and then the return trip to the country is read by

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turning the book upside down and you end up on the page you started with.

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What a clever book! Illustrated in black and white, Round Trip describes a road trip past the coast and into the city. When the sun sets and it is time to return home, readers flip the book upside down and the story continues from the back to the front of the book. The same illustrations, when

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viewed upside down, paint a different picture - a movie theater becomes a restaurant, a bridge becomes a row of telephone poles, and so on. The story isn't complex, but the flipped perspective will wow kids.

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Round Trip is a relatively simple story that relies mostly on the fantastic dual illustration by Ann Jonas. The story is of a nameless narrator and a friend that take a relatively normal trip to and from a location. The illustrations are only in black and white to signify the passing of day into

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night. Once the story book is flipped over, the illustrations can be viewed backwards, telling of their journey home. This book could be used in an art class primarily to discussed dualism, perspective, and other techniques.

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An extremely unique and wonderful children's picture book. Children will be amazed as they read about a family's drive through country and city, only to reach the last page and flip the book top to bottom to follow the family's return journey. Engrossing and attractive to adults as well as children

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this is a great story as well as a superb graphic feast for the eyes.

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This is a creative picture book where someone is going on a trip… leaving from their town, driving through the country into the city… then turning around and driving home again. The creative part is that half-way through, once they leave the city, the reader turns the book upside down to follow

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along to head home. The photos work in both “directions”.

It is creative. It reminded me of “Mirror Mirror” the poetry book of “reverso” poems – read one way, then you can read from the bottom up and it’s kind of the opposite story of reading it “down”. I guess this one should really get the credit, though, as it was published in 1983! The pictures were a bit more artsy than I like, though of course, they had to be drawn in such a way that they would work right-side-up, and again, upside-down. Overall, I’m rating this ok.

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