Megan Montague CashBesprekingen

Wordless, like a comic book. Funny. I loved it!

This book is about the different seasons. This book talks about how plants and flowers grow depending on the season. This is the perfect introduction to weather and seasons for young children. I love the bright colors and beautiful illustrations of each season. The rhyming verses also make the book fun for young children. I think this book would be great for young children to understand how the seasons change four times a year and how the earth’s trip around the sun affects the seasons.½

This book presents the seasons and explains what happens during each one. It also explains why seasons occur and change. It engages the reader through out the book by asking questions in the story.

Ages: 3-6
Source: Book was used for strategy instruction: Effective Questioning for Adv Lang and Literacy Methods Class at Pierce College

This book goes through the season and talks about what it is like for each season. What are some of the things you would see in a particular season?

Age- 2-6
Source- Chief Leschi School

ok, wow... Didn't see that coming! ?�Just like the first Bow-Wow book that I read, this gets awfully creepy/scary before the comforting ending.... ?á
Wordless work of art for all ages. ?áI will try to get more Bow-Wow books.

I have absolutely no doubt that, for many people, this deserves 4.5 or even 5 stars. ?�I, however, was a little *too* creeped out. ?áThen again, I'm more sensitive than many little children. ?áAnd this is for children; most will be just fine with it, even love it.

I had no idea, when I grabbed it from the library display, that it was part of a series. ?áI, personally, think it's magical all on it's own. ?áI think readers familiar with Bow-Wow might feel the truth of the 'familiarity breeds contempt' idiom and not say 'wow' as I did, coming in cold. ?áThen again, I could be wrong. ?áI'd love to read the other Bow-Wow books and find out.

Much like the very next book I happened read, the theme of reaching out to one's neighbors in a spirit of empathy &?ácommunity is here made obvious and important. ?áIn A Ball for All it's handled more heavily, in a book that's almost twee, whereas in this wordless book the theme is secondary to the adventure, and, thus, all the more memorable & powerful.

Highly recommended to all but the most sensitive fans of graphic novels, wordless books, Halloween, canine/feline r'ships, and readers who have Nightmare Neighbors.½

It is a book with no words. Keeps readers hook in the story. Bow-Wow pillow is stolen by some ghostly cats. He goes to the haunted house to retrieve his pillow and then it turns into an exiting adventure. It is a very cute story that at the end the dog and the cats become friends.The art in this book is great, it has black and white and some color to stand out. Graphic design and ink. The pages in the book are like those in a comic book. Genre would be a picture book.

Read on March 26, 2015

I have a very imaginative husband (he does voices, sometimes includes plot lines that aren't there, etc) and I usually make him read to me & Evie if he's home. He was definitely needed for this one since it doesn't have any text. He did a wonderful job of making up a story for us.

Watch out for those ghost cat neighbors!

I really liked this book. The big idea of this book is to grant readers some control over how the story unravels. I liked the idea of not using any words. The lack of text allows readers to develop their own perspective and understanding of the story, strictly through illustrations. I also liked the inventive use of borders around the illustrations. For example, when the illustrator wants you to see through the dogs' eyes, the border is a circle, but when you watch through the readers eyes the border is a square. Another important detail in the book is the color. The color highlights what is important. For example, the beginning of the story starts off at the dogs house, which is full of color. When the cats steal the dog's bed, the dog follows the cats in their black and white house. The house is immensely crowded with black and white cats and objects. The illustrator colors in objects in blue to resemble the dog's bed. The use of color to highlight an object give readers a path on where to look on the page.

Really fun story

“What Makes the Seasons” is a good book that informs readers the characteristics of each season and why certain seasonal events occur. Overall, the book is great because it is informational and poetic. I loved the language and writing in this story. “The sun grows dim, the wind blows cold. Green leaves turn to red and gold.” Not only does the author introduce rhyming schemes, but she uses descriptive language/words that entail what the seasons are like when they change. The plot of the story is well-paced and organized as well. The author starts off with spring, and slowly rolls into summer, autumn, and then winter. Her transitions are smooth. For example, “Spring was here but couldn't stay. Spring left on a summer day.” Another example of this is, “But when the summer days are done, the autumn days have just begun.” The illustrations of this story are very important because they show what the text is saying. On one specific page the text says, “Leaves use sun to make the food. When there's less sun, leaves come unglued.” The illustration shows a tree with green leaves with a sun in the left corner. Then, on the next page, there is a tree with no leaves and the sun hiding in the left corner. I would like to use this book for my future classroom.½

Great book for children 0-3. They can start to learn the colors!

This is an excellent book for a young reader to learn about the changing seasons. The entire book rhymes and asks questions to the reader of why certain things happen within each season, "Why is this the growing season? Plants grow tall, but what's the reason?" I like how the questions are then answered through more rhymes and does not get into too much scientific readings, which is good for the young age group targeted. I also like how it shows the fun each season can bring to a child. The message in this book is definitely to educate children on the simple reasons why things happen during each of the four seasons.

I enjoyed this book a lot because the first thing you see when you open the book is small checkered boxes with pictures that depict different seasons. Pictures of umbrellas, rain clouds, buckets, the sun, and other pictures. Another reason I liked this book is because the words rhyme. For example "Each tree and weed and lima bean shows its favorite shade of green."
The main idea of this book is to provide information about the seasons.

This book is about a dog that pulls of different color socks and it tells the reader what color each sock is.

Source: Pierce County Library

this is about the seasons and how to know how to tell which season it is

"The day began with sprinkling rain tapping at the window pane". A little girl spends the day exploring the seasons. She frolics through spring, winter, summer, and fall. All written in rhyme, this book asks questions about each season and then answers it. This book is great to share when learning about the seasons. This book explains to children why certain things happen during each season.

In the book, WHAT MAKES THE SEASONS?, children learn about the four seasons. Due to the story narrative format of this book, students feel like they are reading a storybook instead of a nonfiction book. Additionally, this book has simple text, which an emergent reader will be able to easily decode. Overall, this book does not seem like a nonfiction book. However, the author includes a lot valuable information for students to learn about seasons and what makes them. This book would be good to use in the classroom when talking about seasons. There are different times during the year when a class can talk about the seasons. This book would be a great book to read to introduce the concept of seasons.½

Children are often curious about the weather and how it changes. If looking for a book which depicts the changes in the season, look no further. This book is a wonderful tool because the text is on a young reader's level. Also, the illustrations are colorful and engaging, helping the reader understand the concepts being presented.

This book uses rhyme while walking through the seasons. It gives different characteristics of each season, while portraying those characteristics in the pictures. I also used this book for a science lesson on the seasons with a culminating activity following it that the students loved.

Great for Pre-K to 1st grade for independent use. With younger children can use to show different facial expressions as well as shape recognition. Can be used for upper level grades for creating there own dialogue. My 12 yo daughter enjoyed reading and making her on story to go along. Bow-Wow is a curious dog who spends an entire day following behind a little blackspot. As Bow Wow follows behind the spot, the spot forms in to a black bug that sends Bow Wow on a journey!

Cute wordless book, dog chases a little speck of a bug, through the entire book. So visual interest and some cleverness, could be used for a write your own story project.

Bow-wow wakes up one morning, and while he's eating his breakfast, a bug lands on his food dish. He follows the bug outside, and hilarity ensues. This book had my oldest daughter and I laughing out loud. It is a wordless picture book, but the lack of words doesn't take away from the book at all. The illustrations tell a hilarious and complete story.

This book would be excellent to allow students to create their own story to go along with the pictures.

This piece of sequential art tells a great story without words. Great pick for beginning readers!

"Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug" is about a dog named Bow-Wow trying to get rid of a pesky little bug. He follows the bug outside and meets other dogs that are also following bugs. He also sees giants bugs that are following dogs. He makes it home with his bug and they both sleep on his bed together. The book is a wordless book, so the entire story is told through the illustrations. The illustrations reminded me of a comic book with large boxes and cartoon-style drawings. The illustrations also have thick black lines and bold colors. A fun story for young readers.