The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Gerstein, Mordicai

A Book

40 pp. | Roaring Brook | April, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-251-2 $16.95

(2) K-3 "Once, in A BOOK...there lived a family of characters." These characters attend to their lives/stories--except the girl, who turns pages looking for her story. Gerstein's characteristic pen-and-paint-on-vellum technique creates a vivid depth. Visual perspective locates readers where they actually are vis-à-vis the physical book: looking down from a bird's-eye view, as if they could literally drop into the scene.

Reviewer: Nina Lindsay | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2009